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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

I am loth to believe that you would wilfully connive at either my 251 capture, or anything that would bring harm to the cause.”

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

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

To protect one's self everyone connives against everyone else.

From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. by James Russell Lowell

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

But the Manhattan district attorney’s office says the defendants connived to obscure the documents’ disputed ownership, despite knowing that Henley said the pages were stolen.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

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

Make no mistake: The newspaper industry connived in its own decline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

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

"Damon's Odysseus is stubborn, overconfident and sacrilegious, but doesn't bear that much resemblance to the conniving, hypocritical egotist of lore who fretted over his wife's fidelity," she noted.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 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

"Marty Supreme," starring Oscars frontrunner Timothee Chalamet as a conniving 1950s table tennis player with big dreams, finished in fifth place at $6.7 million.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

“He’s been a source of conniving and cajolery in this community long enough,” Mrs. Larkin continued.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool