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cabal

[kuh-bal, kuh-bawl] / kəˈbæl, kəˈbɔl /
NOUN
plot
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Angry traders slammed Polymarket on social media, complaining that a cabal of big traders had skewed the resolution process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

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

It was a small but telling detail that demonstrated how the academy wants to be perceived after years of being portrayed as a shadowy record-industry cabal.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 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