conspire
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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
And how did he and his co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago staff members Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, conspire to resist the government’s lawful demands to return the documents?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
"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
But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another, Colin knew.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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
“Office Space” falls apart in its third act when the trio clumsily conspires to rip off Initech.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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
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
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
“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
Around 435 BC, he conspired to overthrow the tyrant of Elea, Nearchus.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Several insurers have filed racketeering lawsuits against Liakas for allegedly conspiring with doctors to fabricate and exaggerate injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to 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 ● Jun. 2, 2026
A Ukrainian man accused of conspiring to set fire to a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer has told a court that he refused to film the attack despite an alleged accomplice "begging" him to.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The gods only knew who they were conspiring with, or what they had mixed in those potions they gave you.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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