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cabal

[kuh-bal, kuh-bawl] / kəˈbæl, kəˈbɔl /
NOUN
plot
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This is evidently what the investment cabal has done.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

It was the inner circle, a cabal I’d tried to disband for more than a decade.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

Then he traces how a theocratic cabal, whose rule most observers thought would be short, found a way to consolidate power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

As any student of the Kings will know, the point is not to conjure up some Pizzagate-style conspiracy about a cabal of liberal Hollywood predators.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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