connive
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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
I’ll be back, you can be sure, At latest 2024, and I will thrive If I connive!
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
“The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.”
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021
Why not, she argued, connive at the Englishwoman’s escape, and let it become known that she had fled back to Meerut?
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
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