conspire

And so, on a dark road on a winter's night somewhere between Coronation Street's Manchester setting and Emmerdale's West Yorkshire home, circumstances conspire to bring characters from both camps together.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

“All of these things are going to conspire to keep what we call the uncertainty index elevated,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 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

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

The trees’ “relationship with the landscape” is changing, she said, as a tiny beetle conspires with climate change to bring down the giant ambassadors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2024

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

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

Anyone who conspires cannot act alone, nor can he find companions except from amongst those whom he believes to be discontented.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

The four firms allegedly conspired to roughly double container prices between 2019 and 2021, resulting in roughly a hundredfold increase to their profits, the DOJ said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

“But history has a habit of sometimes being cruel, and it has conspired to put him in a circumstance where he has to make a difficult decision.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

"Things have conspired against grassroot artists," he tells BBC News, "and without grassroots artists, there are no big artists."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

The pair admitted to charges of conspiring to commit unauthorised acts against TfL under the Computer Misuse Act.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

All three, who live in London, are charged with conspiring together - and "with others" - to damage property by fire between 1 April and 13 May 2025.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

The Quintanas were each sentenced in February 2024 in Miami’s federal court to serve 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to failing to make customs declarations and conspiring against the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to the federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct Aspiration as a “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products” firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Because life’s not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you,” says Will.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth