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

"Here, it helped guide us to think about how the cell density, proliferation rate, signaling, and all these different things conspire."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024

For a moment like that all the universe would have to conspire to move all its pieces and line them up just so.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

"When you commit to a journey, the universe conspires to help you," Smith told a beaming Mr Barry, citing author Paulo Coelho.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who is raising Estella as she conspires to meddle in Pip’s life, famously wears a wedding dress she hasn’t taken off since being left at the altar years before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

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

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

However, long before that, circumstances conspired to give him the opportunity to represent the US.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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

Luna felt as though every single thing on her body had suddenly conspired to alter itself—even her voice had turned traitorous.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Security breaches are a real problem, but they aren’t rogue AIs conspiring to do harm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

And I didn’t like the way my father seemed to appear in all of this—as if he were conspiring behind Reb Saunders’ back to contaminate his son.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok