collusively

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collusively
Adverb
  • Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
  • The key difference lies in the process for converting the fissile material to be bomb usable (chemical reprocessing in the case of plutonium, rather than enrichment, which can be done covertly and in small batches).
    Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Adverb
  • This great disparity between reality and story, truth and history, takes on new dimensions when Robin clandestinely takes refuge at an island priory where Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer) tends to his wounds.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Other examples of politically motivated pirate radio can be found around the world, some of them clandestinely backed by governmental intelligence agencies, but many of them existing as truly grassroots endeavors.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Fro-yo heads will tell you, conspiratorially, that Butterfield Market is rumored to have the same supplier as Forty Carrots, the café tucked away on the seventh floor of Bloomingdale’s which claims to have introduced frozen yogurt to New York City some fifty years ago.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • That Hanson so could faithfully and conspiratorially convey that in her naturalistic, uncontrived images came from a place of friendship.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • As a group of dancers surrounded her on the B-stage, she was surreptitiously harnessed into a rig that carried her aloft, limp yet belting, into the heavens, or at least into what looked like a UFO hovering over the arena.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 June 2026
  • Gray-hat hackers, unlike white-hats, surreptitiously sneak into corporate systems to find security vulnerabilities.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
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“Collusively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collusively. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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