How to Use complicity in a Sentence

complicity

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  • There's no proof of her complicity in the murder.
  • He acted with his brother's complicity.
  • Religious hypocrisy and the complicity of the church are also key themes in the novel.
    — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • In her view, the problem was Gordon's lack of leadership and the board's complicity.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • She was charged with theft and a warrant for complicity to theft was entered for her boyfriend, a 21-year-old Cleveland man.
    — cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • Philpot's wife, 34-year-old Shana Philpot, faces complicity charges.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 14 June 2022
  • Many of the points of negligence or complicity that drive The U.S. and the Holocaust will also be familiar.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Even if Trump is defeated at the ballot box, the stain of complicity will forever taint the Supreme Court and our country.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Serbs have fallen back on lies and self-delusion, Suljagić said, to avoid confronting the horrors of the war and their own complicity.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • The court said Natale-Hjorth, then 18, should stand trial again because there was not enough evidence of his complicity in the killing.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But Jones’s approach—take instances of monstrous violence that the right bears a degree of complicity for and make up lies to blame Democrats—is not on the decline.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Court records show that Taylor was in jail on a charge of complicity in commission of theft by deception.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Perhaps putting those details in the book would have unmasked his complicity in Combs’ misdeeds.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Of the eight defendants — seven men and one woman — none are charged with complicity in murder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Also in the film are men reckoning with their complicity.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In providing this support, the United States assumes a degree of complicity in the deeds of its allies.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Pence’s true feelings about Trump’s complicity in that assault aren’t known.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 July 2022
  • Yet Harry says the Firm’s complicity went far beyond their silence.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Many in the art world rebuked the museums for shying away from Guston’s willingness to look racist violence—and his own complicity with it—in the face.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
  • But the movie suggests complicity in one way or another.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The lawsuit alleges complicity on the part of Webb in his capacity as head of Varsity.
    — Clare Amari, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That sense of complicity between the brand and the women wearing it has been very strong over the years, but particularly during Phoebe’s tenure.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The effect, at least on me, was a shaming apprehension of complicity.
    — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Two 16-year-old boys were charged with murder (complicity), possession of a handgun by a minor and possession of a defaced firearm in the killing of Cortez Duncan Jr., 15.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2022
  • Lula on Thursday also accused some people in the armed forces of complicity.
    — Katie Polglase, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
  • No one enjoys talking and writing about guns and basketball, but avoiding the issues feels a lot like complicity.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023
  • End of carousel No matter how blissful a life the Höss family hopes to project, the property reveals the horrors of their complicity and disregard.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The institute was placed on a trade blacklist in 2020, accused of complicity in abuses against ethnic minorities in China like the Uyghurs.
    — Olivia Wang, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Realism will have to face its complicity with this story and seek another path.
    — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • The reality star received her own backlash for not speaking up more, with many saying that her silence was its own form of complicity.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2023

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