conspire

Solo moves that far from the finish are often doomed, as the chasing riders conspire to track down the soloist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

A statement released by South Korea's National Police Agency revealed that the four suspects operated independently of one another, and did not conspire together.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 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

That plan failed, but it would not be surprising for Arsinoe to convince Ptolemy XIV to conspire with her against their sister.

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

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

But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

Four goals up on aggregate against LASK, O'Neill's Celtic somehow conspired to implode in a second half with little sign of a response on the way to a 5-4 aggregate loss.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But elite club soccer and the Major League Soccer academies have conspired to kill it by prohibiting their players from participating in high school or middle school programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 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

The nearby club members conspired in muted whispers.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Duffy and Acranom’s president, Salvatore Monarca, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe Diamantis—as did Construction Advocacy Professionals’ owner, Antonietta Roy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It also apparently has some weird all-knowing knowledge, because it warns its clueless mom about all the evil characters conspiring to abort the baby.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Hasna is charged with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, conspiring to finance terrorism and financing terrorism.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“I’m hoping that you would, especially since you’re a decent man, Dale, that you would prevail upon whoever is conspiring to resurrect the Confederacy to remove this thing,” the 86-year-old Fraser said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

And I didn’t like the way my father seemed to appear in all of this—as if he were conspiring behind Reb Saunders’ back to contaminate his son.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok