How to Use collusion in a Sentence

collusion

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  • The company was acting in collusion with manufacturers to inflate prices.
  • Adam Schiff jumped off a cliff with the collusion hoax.
    — WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Tuite and Wright then accused the two of collusion, the claims says.
    — Kenny Jacoby and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
  • That kind of collusion couldn’t happen now since the final matches in each group kick off at the same time.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Still, none of it added up to the collusion suggested in Steele's memos.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • To this day, Bud Selig says collusion never took place.
    — Bill Dow, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The need to crack down on corporate collusion with the CCP has never been stronger than at this moment.
    — Marco Rubio, National Review, 3 Feb. 2022
  • If prices are the same as competitors’, that’s collusion.
    — The Editors, National Review, 29 Sep. 2023
  • If he isn’t wooed by somebody, then collusion again is the star of the show, but there aren’t many kings out there willing to offer the crown jewels.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The filthy talk of collusion, of course hyperbolized by Unsocial Media, again is crawling out of the swamp.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Meantime the Owo remain in full, fierce collusion with the colonists, mainly Portuguese.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The Times won a Pulitzer prize for pushing the Russia collusion narrative, which proved to be much ado about nothing.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Posts, videos and memes falsely claim that the attack stemmed from collusion between Hamas and Israel.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Post-Mueller polling found that about half of Americans believed Trump was guilty of collusion.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • But on the question of collusion, the senators split along party lines.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2020
  • And the number one example of that happened to be against Donald Trump with the Russia collusion.
    — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 18 July 2023
  • Robert Mueller’s team never did find proof of Russia-Trump collusion.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • All of this underscores that the great scandal of 2016 wasn’t Russian collusion.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • That last week’s assailants managed to slip past Taliban checkpoints points to failings at best, and collusion at worst, on the part of Afghanistan’s new rulers.
    — Time, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In this global collusion of distractions there was no longer any room for Michael.
    — László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • James Comey may have been right about Russia collusion after all.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Kaepernick has since filed and settled a lawsuit against the NFL, alleging collusion to keep him from playing in the league.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Perhaps there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • The review also showed no collusion intended to rig the voting.
    — Meg Kinnard, ajc, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Legally, collusion may not have been proved, but the door to cooperation was wide open.
    — Holman Jenkins, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In this chilling expose, journalists crack open secret killings and Kremlin collusion that have kept the business of dirty wars above the law.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • All but one of the previous reductions in average salary came in the wake of work stoppages or when owners were found guilty of collusion in 1987.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The shipping industry denies that its alliances have led to any collusion on prices.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The department must be careful of reaching out to individual providers to avoid the appearance of collusion, Medlin said.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 July 2024
  • The work helped fuel allegations on the right of collusion between the Biden administration and the social media industry.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

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