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A person or group joined with another for a shared purpose.

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confederate

The detective suspected that the thief had a confederate inside the house.
Dictionary practice example.
A confederate of the investigator joins her effort to reconstruct the public timeline, illustrating that the word can describe an ally rather than an offender.
From Reading a Fictional Investigation.
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