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
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
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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