conspire
Example Sentences
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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
But the commissioner said the "complainant misinterpreted the WhatsApp messages as an instruction to conspire with the member to submit fraudulent claims".
From BBC • Sep. 10, 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
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