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cabal

[kuh-bal, kuh-bawl] / kəˈbæl, kəˈbɔl /
NOUN
plot
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Angry traders slammed Polymarket on social media, complaining that a cabal of big traders had skewed the resolution process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

This is evidently what the investment cabal has done.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

Not just any action movie either — the sinister leader of the cabal Gi-hun sets himself against likens his vengeance quest to the central choice in “The Matrix.”

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2024

At the height of our couple, we were a two-person cabal, scheming and dreaming but not taking anything too seriously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2024

Once we passed a cabal of figures in black cloaks and tricornes carrying torches and whispering together.

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