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

Food and drink Breakfast here is enough to tempt you out of the hotel’s marshmallow-soft beds, even after a long night of dancing.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
Polar bears Aleut and Gregor wasted no time and were rolling in the beds of ice cubes after entering their outside enclosure.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026

Definition of beds

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There was multiple teams that pursued Casemiro from other leagues, and that's our competition.

— CBS News, CBS News, 31 July 2026
The two leagues have spent decades preening and posturing around each other, but the conversation has taken an unfamiliar and, for the SEC, at least, uncomfortable shift recently.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Definition of leagues

Noun

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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