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Cahoot


Definition:

  • (n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
  • (2) One covers Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Cahoot; the other covers Alliance & Leicester.
  • (3) Questions remain, but the outlines of what Draghi will unveil have been carefully and skilfully briefed ahead of the disclosures in sessions at the European parliament, private briefings to journalists, and speeches, most notably from Jörg Asmussen, the German on the six-strong ECB executive who is said to have drafted the policy in cahoots with his French colleague.
  • (4) The press and the government are in cahoots, he explains, to oppress white people.
  • (5) And British forces have carried out plenty of beatings and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq themselves, either on their own or in cahoots with US and local forces , as multiple reports and inquiries have now made clear.
  • (6) During his refusal to step aside amid the February coup attempt, Giles claimed unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and police commissioner John McRoberts from their respective offices.
  • (7) The two men suspect the police and Abu Hamada were in cahoots.
  • (8) I took some acclimatising to the double act In Cahoots , whose show opens at an inhospitable pitch of self-assertion, without the consistent material to back it up.
  • (9) And what to say about his other eye-catching venture – the cable car over the Thames in east London, run in cahoots with Emirates airline.
  • (10) As journalists struggle to make charges stick, they are running the risk of simply entrenching an image of Ukip in the minds of voters as a populist outsider fighting a homogeneous political elite who are in cahoots to undermine the "silent majority".
  • (11) Santander will retain the Cahoot name and the products will attract separate rates and charges.
  • (12) The new group, which has attracted 25 Syriza MPs, accused Tsipras of acting in cahoots with foreign lenders with the sole aim of purging dissidents and clearing up the political landscape.
  • (13) Bird kept repeating that his twin brother, David, and solicitor Kevin Commons, 60, were "in cahoots" against him.
  • (14) Isis, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers party], the spies of Assad – they are all in cahoots but will get swept away,” says Ahmet, echoing Erdogan’s implausible allegation that all these groups cooperated in the recent Ankara suicide bomb attack, the deadliest terrorist strike in Turkey’s history.
  • (15) He has hit back with the same argument he has used about a string of legal investigations that have dogged him since 2012: that he is innocent of any wrongdoing and that he is the victim of a plot against him by political enemies in cahoots with the justice system.
  • (16) He is probably part Muppet, so it would make sense that he's in cahoots with the robots.
  • (17) While questions still need to be answered about political interference (what some call “co-ordination”, I’d call “in cahoots”), the actual letter can be dismissed for what it was – a cynical attack on public intelligence.
  • (18) Again, according to which conspiracy you favour, those same Islamists – be they Muslim Brotherhood or ultra-conservative Salafis – are either in cahoots with the junta in an attempt to guarantee their own slice of power, or as hapless as the rest of us trying to end military rule.
  • (19) Oliver Stone's JFK , for instance, flat-out invented a case to support the view that John F Kennedy was murdered by the CIA in cahoots with Cuban exile organisations.
  • (20) There is a very real danger that the conduct of a parallel inquiry in the terms advised would compromise both current and future prosecution action.” Giles and Chandler said the government also considered the commission’s inquiry was “sufficiently robust to not require a judicial inquiry.” Last month Giles apologised to the NT police force for remarks he made in the fallout of an attempted challenge to his leadership, which alleged unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and McRoberts from their respective commissions, but the NT Police Association labelled the apology “half-hearted”.

Cahoots


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
  • (2) One covers Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Cahoot; the other covers Alliance & Leicester.
  • (3) Questions remain, but the outlines of what Draghi will unveil have been carefully and skilfully briefed ahead of the disclosures in sessions at the European parliament, private briefings to journalists, and speeches, most notably from Jörg Asmussen, the German on the six-strong ECB executive who is said to have drafted the policy in cahoots with his French colleague.
  • (4) The press and the government are in cahoots, he explains, to oppress white people.
  • (5) And British forces have carried out plenty of beatings and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq themselves, either on their own or in cahoots with US and local forces , as multiple reports and inquiries have now made clear.
  • (6) During his refusal to step aside amid the February coup attempt, Giles claimed unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and police commissioner John McRoberts from their respective offices.
  • (7) The two men suspect the police and Abu Hamada were in cahoots.
  • (8) I took some acclimatising to the double act In Cahoots , whose show opens at an inhospitable pitch of self-assertion, without the consistent material to back it up.
  • (9) And what to say about his other eye-catching venture – the cable car over the Thames in east London, run in cahoots with Emirates airline.
  • (10) As journalists struggle to make charges stick, they are running the risk of simply entrenching an image of Ukip in the minds of voters as a populist outsider fighting a homogeneous political elite who are in cahoots to undermine the "silent majority".
  • (11) Santander will retain the Cahoot name and the products will attract separate rates and charges.
  • (12) The new group, which has attracted 25 Syriza MPs, accused Tsipras of acting in cahoots with foreign lenders with the sole aim of purging dissidents and clearing up the political landscape.
  • (13) Bird kept repeating that his twin brother, David, and solicitor Kevin Commons, 60, were "in cahoots" against him.
  • (14) Isis, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers party], the spies of Assad – they are all in cahoots but will get swept away,” says Ahmet, echoing Erdogan’s implausible allegation that all these groups cooperated in the recent Ankara suicide bomb attack, the deadliest terrorist strike in Turkey’s history.
  • (15) He has hit back with the same argument he has used about a string of legal investigations that have dogged him since 2012: that he is innocent of any wrongdoing and that he is the victim of a plot against him by political enemies in cahoots with the justice system.
  • (16) He is probably part Muppet, so it would make sense that he's in cahoots with the robots.
  • (17) While questions still need to be answered about political interference (what some call “co-ordination”, I’d call “in cahoots”), the actual letter can be dismissed for what it was – a cynical attack on public intelligence.
  • (18) Again, according to which conspiracy you favour, those same Islamists – be they Muslim Brotherhood or ultra-conservative Salafis – are either in cahoots with the junta in an attempt to guarantee their own slice of power, or as hapless as the rest of us trying to end military rule.
  • (19) Oliver Stone's JFK , for instance, flat-out invented a case to support the view that John F Kennedy was murdered by the CIA in cahoots with Cuban exile organisations.
  • (20) There is a very real danger that the conduct of a parallel inquiry in the terms advised would compromise both current and future prosecution action.” Giles and Chandler said the government also considered the commission’s inquiry was “sufficiently robust to not require a judicial inquiry.” Last month Giles apologised to the NT police force for remarks he made in the fallout of an attempted challenge to his leadership, which alleged unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and McRoberts from their respective commissions, but the NT Police Association labelled the apology “half-hearted”.

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