Thesaurus results for COLLUDED

colluded

verb

past tense of collude

as in plotted

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends accused of colluding to block the sale of the vacant land

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Recent Examples of colluded Schmitt was trying to suggest Tuesday that Smith improperly colluded with Fulton County Dist. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Kaepernick alleged that team owners colluded to keep him out of the league because of his protest and filed a grievance against the NFL in 2017, which ultimately ended in a settlement. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2026 His allusion was to the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam, in which some felt the United States had colluded. — Robert Stone, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 When he was arrested, police alleged Au had colluded with an unspecified anti-China group outside the city and provided false and seditious materials for public display online or abroad. — ABC News, 29 July 2026 Ryan Greenblat, chief scientist at Redwood Research, posted a 13-bullet-point note on X with a laundry list of areas to explore, including whether the two models colluded during the attack. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 July 2026 Angela Diaz Angela colluded with then-husband Ian Diaz to help frame Hadley. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026 In short, the owners colluded to artificially suppress players’ salaries. — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Now, the commission is investigating whether major manufacturers colluded to take advantage of inflation and raise their prices above the increase in the cost of raw ingredients, according to Kyodo News. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 22 June 2026

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But a few months later, at her 18-month appointment, the standard graph that plotted a child’s weight against their age showed her weight slipping off the curve.

— Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
By the time the coffee shop building was going up at the end of the route in 1959, Fresco said, interstate freeways were already beginning to usurp Route 66’s role and the Santa Monica route of Interstate 10 had been plotted.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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