Sample sentences for COLLUSION

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Definition

to conspire (the act of working together in secret at others' expense)

The antitrust department tries to prevent supermarket collusion to raise grocery prices.

collusion = to conspire (the act of working together in secret at others' expense)

Go to their offices and show your pearl - or better, let them come here, so that you can see there is no collusion.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

collusion = conspiracy

There was collusion, sir, or that villain never would have escaped.
Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
She's not in collusion with the matron.
Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
Tis true, indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.
Shakespeare, William -- Love's Labour's Lost
"They wouldn't expel you," I said easily "You're guilty of Willful Collusion at the very most.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
But: did Horst and Sascha collude to make painting vanish in the first place, to Frankfurt, with bad Miami deal?
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Lucas of House Samos, for crimes against the crown, for collusion with the terrorist organization known as the Scarlet Guard, I declare you guilty.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
Collusion, corrupt practices, and gonorrhea.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
And so will our innocent children, for we are colluding when we allow these crimes to be committed.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
His silence seemed like collusion in his fate.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
Inside collusion implies-
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Assassinated by the Vatican in collusion with Pepin d'Heristal.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
I mean, I'm happy that you two colluded on your story and that you weren't arrested, because that would have made your working here impossible.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
The Liberal Government (clearly by collusion) was beaten by the Conservatives, though the latter were nominally much in the minority.
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
Instead, women across the nation colluded in our degradation!
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Sometimes I think they're in collusion.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale

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