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It stars Brian Cox as the Roy family patriarch and Jeremy Strong as one of his children, who connive to succeed their father as the company’s leader.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Actually, she doesn't and she will manipulate, exploit and connive anyone without giving it a second thought if it serves her best interests.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2022

I’ll be back, you can be sure, At latest 2024, and I will thrive If I connive!

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

Their claims have been amplified in recent weeks, as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal revealed how well-off families connive to get kids into selective colleges.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019

Arthur ought to have blushed at this high praise, but instead, he stolidly explained his epigram, and observed further that no literary man who respected himself would connive in a boom.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

It’s a con-artist film — poor family connives its way into jobs serving a younger, wealthy quartet — and the con rides an elevator from comically to tragically desperate.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

Secretly, though, he dresses up as a friar and connives behind the scenes to thwart Angelo's decisions and to save Claudio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2017

To wrap things up: House connives to get Park to disobey an order he knows is wrong so that she will learn to stand up for herself.

From Time ● Nov. 1, 2011

Instead, Ferris just connives to use Cameron for things Cameron has that Ferris does not.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2011

The sentimentality of men connives at this, and is thus largely responsible for it.

From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Murdaugh’s lawyers contend that Hill connived to have a juror removed—the so-called Egg Lady—because Hill feared she wasn’t inclined to convict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were conceived, convinced, connived, inconvenienced and invoiced.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

But for years she waylaid me on the street to complain and raised that incident at meetings to prove the editors connived with the paid Coop staff to prevent pro-democracy voices from being heard.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

Still, it’s frustrating to watch Audrey, who connived her way to the top, wring her hands like an unsure novice every time she faces the slightest of challenges.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2020

Bono had, I ascertained, connived to secrete them when we had removed to this house from the town; having no use for them upon his exile, he had left them for me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

"Damon's Odysseus is stubborn, overconfident and sacrilegious, but doesn't bear that much resemblance to the conniving, hypocritical egotist of lore who fretted over his wife's fidelity," she noted.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

SantaCon’s conniving leader gives New Yorkers another reason to hate the yearly bar crawl.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

At Sam First, you’re so far into the Westside it feels conniving and like a tech monster might hold you hostage until you give up all your data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

"Marty Supreme," starring Oscars frontrunner Timothee Chalamet as a conniving 1950s table tennis player with big dreams, finished in fifth place at $6.7 million.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

“Him and all them greedy conniving railroad men, making promises Montana can’t deliver.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson