cahoots

noun

as in companies

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  1. companies
  2. beds
  3. leagues
  4. affinities
  5. mergers
  6. solidarities
  7. fellowships
Noun
  • The role of companies Singapore’s new scheme shifts from merely encouraging births to focus on family well-being over the long term, which might help change how potential parents think about children.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Persuading big American oil companies to return to the region could prove a challenge given the political uncertainty and damaged infrastructure.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of companies
Noun
  • Inside, in what is normally a sports hall, hundreds of people are sleeping overnight on trestle beds.
    — Emma Burrows, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • While the tents have the most charm, imo—ivory canvas walls, Adirondack chairs on wooden porches, true beds with sheepskin throws and wooden frames—the cabins and suites are unsurprisingly the more comfortable option.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of beds
Noun
  • Hugh Jackman wants to joins his fellow Hollywood star and friend Ryan Reynolds in owning part of a soccer club in the English leagues.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • There is no appeals process for this, and courts generally give leagues wide latitude to enforce their own rules.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of leagues
Noun
  • As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.
    — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Marino also has a penchant for seeing affinities in the work of two artists who paths likely never crossed, as is the case with his two-person exhibition of Parsons and Accardi.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of affinities
Noun
  • Congress recognized that broadcast mergers raise complex legal, economic, and technical questions that require specialized expertise.
    — Robin Rossenfeld, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Both galaxy pairs featured above, Arp 143 and II Zw 096, highlight mergers and collisions between galaxies.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of mergers
Noun
  • Nwosu's portrait of Lagos is filled with care and nuance, with an eye to the complicated solidarities that bind its people together.
    — Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The third explores attempts by thinkers to use the concept of Asia to forge solidarities, which unraveled at the Asian Relations Conference in Delhi in 1947, when regional powers could not resolve their contradictions.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of solidarities
Noun
  • In the course of his career, Rock has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and was named a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the John Dos Passos Prize.
    — Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Cullman Center.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of fellowships
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