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It stars Brian Cox as the Roy family patriarch and Jeremy Strong as one of his children, who connive to succeed their father as the company’s leader.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Actually, she doesn't and she will manipulate, exploit and connive anyone without giving it a second thought if it serves her best interests.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2022

Their claims have been amplified in recent weeks, as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal revealed how well-off families connive to get kids into selective colleges.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019

But if you should survive to 105, Think how well you’ll connive with the stuff you contrive.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2017

It is easy to conceive how such men would connive together for the injury of Federal soldiers, if they could only get the military authorities to tolerate their complaints and give them a hearing.

From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs

A woman connives to make her husband jealous when his secretive actions lead her to believe him unfaithful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

It’s a con-artist film — poor family connives its way into jobs serving a younger, wealthy quartet — and the con rides an elevator from comically to tragically desperate.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

To wrap things up: House connives to get Park to disobey an order he knows is wrong so that she will learn to stand up for herself.

From Time ● Nov. 1, 2011

Instead, Ferris just connives to use Cameron for things Cameron has that Ferris does not.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2011

The chief charge against Senator Smoot is that he encourages, countenances, and connives at the defiant violation of law.

From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

Murdaugh’s lawyers contend that Hill connived to have a juror removed—the so-called Egg Lady—because Hill feared she wasn’t inclined to convict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

It all began with a truly terrible day for Rhaenyra, who early on learned that her father had died and that her former best friend had connived to steal the throne from her.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

But for years she waylaid me on the street to complain and raised that incident at meetings to prove the editors connived with the paid Coop staff to prevent pro-democracy voices from being heard.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

His father was a mercurial conman who spent time in prison for insurance fraud but who also connived his way into London’s upper society.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2020

Bono had, I ascertained, connived to secrete them when we had removed to this house from the town; having no use for them upon his exile, he had left them for me.

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

Yet, actors sign on anyway, and viewers will watch regardless, because Netflix has crafted a conniving production model that benefits the indiscriminate philistines in charge.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

SantaCon’s conniving leader gives New Yorkers another reason to hate the yearly bar crawl.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

She may be a conniving opportunist; she may be an abused and desperate woman simply hoping for a better life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

At Sam First, you’re so far into the Westside it feels conniving and like a tech monster might hold you hostage until you give up all your data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

She had been despised as an underhanded and conniving witch since her days with Caesar.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby