conspire
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Could his supervisors conspire with agents to do bad things?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Circumstances can conspire against us, but there should be room for improvement.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025
When circumstance, and one’s own body, seem to conspire against you, one can, as E.M.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
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
"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
Sometimes the universe conspires to help those in need.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
All that has conspired to produce a World Cup that is struggling to catch on with the public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
The Justice Department indicted four shipping container manufacturers, alleging that they conspired to restrict the output and fix prices of shipping containers for at least four years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Prosecutors said Lu conspired with China’s Ministry of Public Security to open a police station in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Therefore, as a group, he thought, they quietly conspired to keep things calm.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
ADM went on to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices and set sales volumes on two products it sold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hasna is charged with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, conspiring to finance terrorism and financing terrorism.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
But even the air seemed to be conspiring against her, making her think otherwise.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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