CAHOOTS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

cahoots

noun

as in companies

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Noun

As is true for many other industries in China, intense competition at home is driving companies to expand globally.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
Other companies that have ALPRs include Axon, PlateSmart, Innova Systems, Perceptics, and Jenoptik.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026

Definition of companies

Noun

Bathrooms, complete with rainfall showers, are lined with Bellino Turkish cotton bath towels and Salt and Stone products; beds are made up in Cuddledown linens; and Whirlpool washers and dryers are in every unit.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2026
Kidd likened resisting regulation of riding in truck beds to defying seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of beds

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Other parts of the world have their own football leagues as well.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
As European leagues have gained popularity through hit Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso and Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s high-profile ownership of Welsh club Wrexham, even more billionaires are hoping to get in on the action.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 July 2026

Definition of leagues

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Knowing their days of bloodline privilege are numbered, the German and the French aristocrat bond, their class affinities binding them more tightly than the uniforms that separate them.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026
In her memoir, Andrews mentions that her children briefly attended UCLA Lab School and that Joanna had affinities for horseback riding and reading.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 June 2026

Definition of affinities

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That means having to navigate a business that is contracting because of mergers and consolidation.

— Brent Lang, Variety, 25 July 2026
That is troubling because these early black holes should have had to undergo at least 1 billion years of mergers and gluttonous feeding to reach supermassive status.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of mergers

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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

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Kashyap is an acclaimed author and translator of several novels and poetry collections and has received awards and fellowships from Harvard, NEA, and more.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
The proceeds from the sale will go towards fellowships, grants, and residencies.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 17 July 2026

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