cahoots

noun

as in companies

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  1. companies
  2. beds
  3. leagues
  4. affinities
  5. mergers
  6. solidarities
  7. fellowships
Noun
  • The companies say a flood of lawsuits in state courts is not the way to deal with the global issue.
    — LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Wildfires California created first-in-the-nation standards to test and remediate homes damaged by wildfire smoke and to require insurance companies to pay for associated costs.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of companies
Noun
  • Interiors are serene, sophisticated and incredibly spacious with vaulted ceilings, oversized beds and vast bathrooms with freestanding bathtubs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • If the projections come through, the school will need to add 750 student beds, 370 parking spaces and 270 staff members to keep pace, according to the plan.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of beds
Noun
  • Palm City Polo Club provides polo lessons and hosts leagues for people with different experience levels, Casey said.
    — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
  • However, restrictions have begun to loosen over the last decade, and some players have been allowed to compete abroad or join lucrative leagues.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of leagues
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  • With its affinities for isolation and, at times, imposing scale, Land art conjures archaeology and the geological sublime—vast expanses of space and time.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The looks were presented in pairs to highlight affinities, variations and visual echoes that reflect the designers’ methodology and approach rooted in the principle of duality.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of affinities
Noun
  • It’s been a dynamic year with a varied complexion of transactions, from mega-mergers to portfolio pruning through corporate divestitures.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos, such as mergers of supermassive black holes, should produce a very specific gravitational wave signature, according to general relativity.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of mergers
Noun
  • Nwosu's portrait of Lagos is filled with care and nuance, with an eye to the complicated solidarities that bind its people together.
    — Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The third explores attempts by thinkers to use the concept of Asia to forge solidarities, which unraveled at the Asian Relations Conference in Delhi in 1947, when regional powers could not resolve their contradictions.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of solidarities
Noun
  • The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology requires that a general psychiatry subspecialty reach a certain number of fellowships and trainees in those fellowships to be formally approved, Osborne told me.
    — Meg LeDuc, STAT, 23 Sep. 2026
  • For more information on Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's fellowships and residencies, see here.
    — Nakell Williams, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of fellowships
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