How to Use complicity in a Sentence

complicity

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  • There's no proof of her complicity in the murder.
  • He acted with his brother's complicity.
  • Two memoirs have cast light on the problem’s scale—and the widespread complicity La familia grande.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2021
  • He is charged with a felony charge of complicity to improperly discharge of firearms into a habitation.
    — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2021
  • He, too, was dinged up after the Capitol riots, accused of complicity for his challenge to the electoral vote count.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The disappointment comes from the awareness that support for someone’s work is also in some ways complicity in their actions.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The guilt of complicity, yes—many of us now lived in the country that had enabled the regime’s practices, as part of its touted war against communism—but more important, the guilt of survival.
    — Daniel Loedel, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Padilla’s vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Around 2015, the history of Webb’s complicity with persecution came to light.
    — Sarah Tuttle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
  • And to those with the power to help and yet sit idly by, your silence is complicity.
    — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Of course, the show teases us, all the while, with the prospect of her complicity—if not outright guilt—in Merritt’s killing.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Religious hypocrisy and the complicity of the church are also key themes in the novel.
    — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Just like Bernie, that swindler could not have done it without a big bank’s complicity.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 28 July 2024
  • Now guilty of complicity to murder, in Season 2 their main goal is just to stay alive.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The explorations of the varying lines of complicity don’t end there.
    — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • In her view, the problem was Gordon's lack of leadership and the board's complicity.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But legal challenges to their complicity are in the works.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2021
  • But the most recent case of complicity lies with Hochul, Boylan said.
    — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2021
  • She was charged with theft and a warrant for complicity to theft was entered for her boyfriend, a 21-year-old Cleveland man.
    — cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • The report, however, cleared the French of complicity in the genocide.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • Philpot's wife, 34-year-old Shana Philpot, faces complicity charges.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 14 June 2022
  • Many of the points of negligence or complicity that drive The U.S. and the Holocaust will also be familiar.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Webb is far from the only figure NASA has revered who could be accused of complicity.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2021
  • For Natale-Hjorth, the appeals court was ordered to look at the charge of complicity to commit murder.
    — CBS News, 3 July 2024
  • This is also the case for 10 of the other defendants who are on trial for complicity in the murders.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The Harvard Strike in the spring of 1969 emerged out of what we students perceived as the university’s complicity in the Vietnam War.
    — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Even if Trump is defeated at the ballot box, the stain of complicity will forever taint the Supreme Court and our country.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • No false tone of healing or hope is sounded at the end; instead, the circles of complicity keep widening.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • To signal broad international opposition to Maduro’s allies’ complicity in the regime’s fraud and repression, concerned countries should tighten and synchronize their sanctions.
    — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
  • More exotic theories include that the CIA concealed evidence of Soviet complicity in the assassination in the belief that exposure of this would inexorably lead to a nuclear holocaust.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024

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