Example Sentences

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When it is shorn from the past that has molded its character—the countless connections and complicities that become ever more entwined over generations—a community is deprived of a future.

From Slate • May 25, 2021

Our traumas and lapsed memories, our silences or complicities, as compared to the current youth culture, to find confirmation that we have evolved.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies.

From Time Magazine Archive

What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator.

From Time Magazine Archive

A single power can rise and, above feudal complicities, above earthly interest, avenge the oppressed and the weak.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene