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The inquiry panel expressed shock that a minister would have connived in the sending of anonymous emails to his own permanent secretary.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2018

Would the British state, in these circumstances, have connived in straightforward extrajudicial killing?

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018

Van Hong Lu loudly denied that she could have connived in the hoax.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shigetada would never have connived at any measure inimical to the interests of his deceased master.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

"Won't this be very serious for you, if the authorities find that you have connived at the escape?" she asked.

From The Angel of Terror by Wallace, Edgar