cabal

Social media, however, and its cabal of influencers operate along many of the same lines as their reality TV forebears.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Conspiracy theories surfaced online that the whale had been deliberately driven into the Baltic Sea and all had been staged by a cabal of scientists, authorities and environmental organisations.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

This is evidently what the investment cabal has done.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

It seemed reasonable to assume that once Patel realized that there was no cabal running the bureau, he would be able to calm everyone down.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2025

Once we passed a cabal of figures in black cloaks and tricornes carrying torches and whispering together.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

That Epstein’s crimes were confined to himself and a few enablers, chiefly Ghislaine Maxwell, was intolerable to influencers and politicos determined to attribute all bad things to the dark workings of cabals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

We’ve also reached a point in the season at which previous groups of Traitors turned on each other for reasons similar to those that do in tyrannical cabals: mutual envy, paranoia and greed.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

The sequel’s plot hinges on a series of twists that successively reveal you to be a pawn in a power struggle among three competing cabals.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

“As soon as they heard that, a lot of cabals here in Hollywood, that’s all they needed to hear. It’s like, ‘OK, she must be destroyed.’

From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

Men muttered in small cabals or threatened one another by the fireside, cutting each other with their eyes and hissing, vaunting superiority in their familiarity with the Unseen.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Political leaders grumbled, and military officers caballed, but the popular feeling went out to Washington with a sure and utter confidence.

From George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

He was the Keeper of George III.'s conscience, until he caballed against Mr. Pitt, and was unceremoniously turned out by him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

They caballed, traduced the Baron, and he fell into disgrace.

From After London Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

The three last-named persons often held little conspiracies together, and caballed or grumbled against the head of the house.

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

He intrigued in society and politics, was a practised duellist, and though he was not more than seven-or eight-and-twenty at Richelieu's death, had already caballed against him.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

Henry Kissinger happened to be visiting London at the time and witnessed the caballing against her.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 8, 2013

Some months of caballing with our friends—even our Hielan' friends—in the France, left me with an unwholesome heart that would almost doubt my father in his grave.

From Doom Castle by Neil Munro

A man of real Merit cannot connect himself with those who are addicted to caballing; and yet such are the Persons, who frequently conduct others.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

It is this:—"You know their promptitude in writing, and their diligence in caballing; to write, speak, or act against them will only stimulate them to new efforts."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I suppose he was a caballing, bribing, intriguing politician, like others in that country, both black and white.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke