How to Use collude in a Sentence

collude

verb
  • The two companies had colluded to fix prices.
  • The news now is that cartel members don’t seem that eager to collude with him.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Both men have been charged with colluding in theft and murder, the outlet added.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • But all of those things really kind of collude to keep Black women out.
    Abc News, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Trump is right, and Stephanopolous is wrong: Mueller did clear the president of colluding with Russia.
    Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
  • Reid and Kaepernick sued the NFL and alleged that teams colluded in not signing them because of their protest.
    Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • President Biden blames the surge in prices on large firms that dominate markets and collude to raise prices.
    William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Li and Chan were charged with colluding with foreign forces, alongside Lai.
    Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • One aim of the probe was to find out whether any Trump associates had colluded with Russia to help Trump get elected.
    Deb Riechmann, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2020
  • Do not collude with the Taliban to impose false narratives on our past and our future.
    Rina Amiri, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Teenage girls collude through song; music is a secret code, a signal, a warning.
    Leah Carroll, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2022
  • As Comer tells it, then-VP Biden 'colluded' with this business by ...
    Will Steakin, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • His suit alleges that Jones’ attorneys and the city colluded to deprive class members of their rights in that case.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That celebrities might on some level collude with the paparazzi is, at this point, obvious.
    Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Reid and Kaepernick then sued the NFL, alleging that teams colluded in not signing them because of their stance on the anthem.
    Scooby Axson, SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • Kaepernick accused owners across the league of colluding to prevent him from signing with an NFL team.
    Justin Carissimo, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2019
  • But this is no caper movie: The fallout from the theft only accelerates the forces that collude to keep the friends down and fighting with one another.
    New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • What Mueller found was that there wasn’t an express agreement between Trump’s campaign and the Russians to collude in hopes of getting Trump elected.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Kaepernick and Reid, who was also on the 49ers then and who joined in kneeling, filed grievances against the NFL for allegedly colluding against them to keep them from playing.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Watson escaped criminal charges last week, but 22 women didn’t collude and come up with the same story.
    Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Our government should not collude to set a minimum rate.
    WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • The verdict accused him of colluding with Zhang and Qin, who worked at medical institutes in the same province.
    USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
  • White House aides collude with tech platforms to silence dissenting voices on Covid.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Robert Mueller investigation dragged on and was supposed to prove Trump colluded with Russia.
    John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The Red/Blue phenomenon was a strange case of the fans and the music business colluding to create a new Fabs album, simply because the Fabs themselves refused to do it.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Americans were told that the president was a traitor who had colluded with Vladimir Putin to subvert U.S. democracy.
    Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
  • That is direct evidence of certainly an intent to collude with the Russians.
    Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 5 Feb. 2021
  • President Trump shouldn’t throw Mr. Acosta to the same mob that has indicted him without evidence of colluding with the Russians.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • The report found that while there was no evidence the campaign colluded with Russia to swing the election, Trump could not be cleared of trying to obstruct the investigation .
    Mary Clare Jalonick, The Denver Post, 20 July 2019
  • In every single country in Latin America, officials at all levels collude with the drug trade.
    Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023

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