conspire
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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
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
Prison and the authorities conspire to rob each man of his dignity.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
It’s like if you want something bad enough, the universe conspires to make it happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 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
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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
"Things have conspired against grassroot artists," he tells BBC News, "and without grassroots artists, there are no big artists."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
The Justice Department probe included an examination of whether large producers had conspired to raise prices or hold back supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Its owner, Su Bin, was arrested in 2014 and pleaded guilty two years later to U.S. charges of conspiring to steal data for China from American defense contractors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 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
Matthew Madsen, 39, has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to commit honest services fraud and remains free on bond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
In May 2025, the firm pleaded guilty “to conspiring to hide more than $4 billion from the IRS in at least 475 offshore accounts” and agreed to pay nearly $511 million, according to the DOJ.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
The rat’s beady eyes watched Clare’s expression, his whiskers curling in a conspiring grin.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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