cabal

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

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

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

He laughed at the crises: he disdained this war of words, caballed against ministers, and treated passing events with levity.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde

He caballed with persecuted Papists and Puritans alike, and with various desperados.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

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

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

From After London Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

While here, Alketas, Polemon, and Dokimus caballed against him, claiming the supreme command for themselves.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart

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

From Newsweek ● Apr. 8, 2013

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

What those caballing captains may design, I must prevent, by being first in action.—

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

Princes, equerries, physicians, pages—all conferring, whispering, plotting, and caballing, how to induce the king to set off!

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney

The Dominie’s kindness and attention were unremitting, and no one ever thought of caballing against me.

From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat