conspire
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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
When circumstance, and one’s own body, seem to conspire against you, one can, as E.M.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
"I know some of these names. These are rich men. Traders, merchants, craftsmen. Why should they conspire against us?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
"Office Space" falls apart in its third act when the trio clumsily conspires to rip off Initech.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,” he had said.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
However, long before that, circumstances conspired to give him the opportunity to represent the US.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
The four firms allegedly conspired to roughly double container prices between 2019 and 2021, resulting in roughly a hundredfold increase to their profits, the DOJ said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Prosecutors said Lu conspired with China’s Ministry of Public Security to open a police station in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
How stupid, that they had not even conspired to get their story straight.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The pair admitted to charges of conspiring to commit unauthorised acts against TfL under the Computer Misuse Act.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ukrainian national Lavrynovych, and Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, have now been convicted at the Old Bailey of conspiring to target property and a car connected to the UK prime minister.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct Aspiration as a “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products” firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Peters was convicted on several charges including attempting to influence a public servant, violating her elections duty and conspiring to commit criminal impersonation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
She was starting to doze in front of the fire, the warmth and comfort conspiring to make her eyelids heavy, when the front door slammed.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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