conspire

In popular usage, it assumes the thing signified must be false, whereas people do conspire, and it is reasonable to devise theories about their schemes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Circumstances can conspire against us, but there should be room for improvement.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025

But the commissioner said the "complainant misinterpreted the WhatsApp messages as an instruction to conspire with the member to submit fraudulent claims".

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

Media culture, Laurel Canyon culture, gender culture all conspire to keep Lane and Gala from being what a writer needs most to be: honest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

They weren't partial or biased, just very persuasive in detailing how organic brain damage, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can conspire to create severe mental impairment.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

She’s happy in spite of every aspect of life that conspires to bring her down because it’s the ultimate power move.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Kovalchuk publicly praised the 1968 Soviet movie “Dead Season,” in which the CIA conspires with former Nazi doctors to control humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

And year after year, the calendar conspires to help them.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

“Office Space” falls apart in its third act when the trio clumsily conspires to rip off Initech.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,” he had said.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

In that attack, hundreds of OpenAI’s AI bots had conspired to hack Hugging Face without anyone initially noticing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Four goals up on aggregate against LASK, O'Neill's Celtic somehow conspired to implode in a second half with little sign of a response on the way to a 5-4 aggregate loss.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But elite club soccer and the Major League Soccer academies have conspired to kill it by prohibiting their players from participating in high school or middle school programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The Iran war, soaring jet-fuel prices, and the soccer World Cup have all conspired to make domestic travel in the U.S. incredibly pricey.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

This is why they made no effort to prepare the child for life, since the stars had already conspired to endow her with so many gifts.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

U.S. prosecutors this year charged employees and a contractor at Super Micro, a U.S. company, with conspiring to illegally route billions of dollars of AI servers containing restricted Nvidia chips to China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

He’s brought in for questioning after allegedly conspiring with a dissident priest, only to find that his interrogator is a former student.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

It also apparently has some weird all-knowing knowledge, because it warns its clueless mom about all the evil characters conspiring to abort the baby.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Hasna is charged with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, conspiring to finance terrorism and financing terrorism.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

It made my stomach churn to think there was a whole group conspiring to make sure I had a lousy junior year.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan