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 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 In 2024, a California jury found the NFL illegally colluded with DirecTV to increase prices for Sunday Ticket subscribers and awarded $14 billion in damages. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026 The lawsuit was one in a series of conservative grievances that Big Tech colluded with Democrats to stifle Republican views. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026 Mueller concluded that it could not be proved that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia. — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2026

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plotted

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Setting the form equal to a number fixes it into an equation that can be plotted on an x-y graph—something many of us learned to do on graphing calculators in high school.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
Aurelius uses similar techniques across the record, which lends to a certain sameyness by the end, though the tracks’ varied tempos, each one plotted at a different point on the downtempo spectrum, help offset any stagnation.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026

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