How to Use collude in a Sentence

collude

verb
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  • Kaepernick later filed a grievance against the N.F.L. and the owners, accusing them of colluding to keep him out of the league.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • At minimum, the episode is just another example of a person working for Trump who was eager to collude with Russia.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 July 2018
  • In Milan, weather once again colluded with man to produce Instagram transcendence.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • But planning for the meeting was delayed amid the investigations into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia.
    — Catherine Lucey, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
  • Trump and his supporters have bristled at suggestions that the president or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the presidency.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2018
  • 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
  • Tom is colluding with his assistant, Ann, a saint with pointy white nails.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The Left is colluding with big companies to roll back the Second Amendment.
    — Amy Lieu, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • Politicians make promises, but no matter who wins, shadowy elites and self-serving politicians collude or produce gridlock.
    — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022

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