collusive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for collusive
Adjective
  • Kennedy’s views of individual ingredients oscillate between commonsense dietary maxims and conspiratorial musings.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
  • Patel and Bongino, who were appointed as the top two leaders at the FBI by Trump, have a history of conspiratorial posts and statements about the Capitol attack.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • American veterans and others have traveled to smaller, clandestine clinics for treatment to deal with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • Gi-hun, who’d found his way back in the clandestine gaming complex (situated inside a mountain on a remote island), is Player 456 again among a new round of contestants.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • For every regime change at the hands of Americans that went well—think Adolf Hitler’s exit from Germany and Benito Mussolini from Italy—there are multitudes that went off the rails: six overt attempts during the Cold War and another 64 in covert operations.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 19 June 2025
  • The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy The laughs are as big as the mullets in this rollicking story about a hugely successful hair-metal band that’s really a cover for a covert operation in Cold War-era Eastern Europe.
    Andrea Lavinthal, People.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • There’s nothing surreptitious about my administration.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • Reporters from around the country followed the case, which marked the first time ever that prosecutors would play for a jury a surreptitious FBI recording of mob soldiers taking the oath of omerta during a mafia initiation ceremony.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher was also fined an undisclosed amount.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
  • Suarez, Shildt and Roberts — all of whom were ejected on Thursday — were also fined undisclosed amounts.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
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“Collusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collusive. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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