complot

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Jack Reacher descubre un complot a nivel estatal para culpar a Susan Turner, la antigua jefa de su unidad, de traición al gobierno.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

And here they found John when they stole in one after the other, soft-footed, that the boy might suspect no complot.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

That was the time in which my father, with indescribable goodness, and in complot with you all, sold the half of his library to furnish me with the means of foreign travel.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

Richard's speech:— “Nor never by advised purpose meet, To plot, contrive, or complot any ill, 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.”

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Richard's speech:   Nor never by advised purpose meet,   To plot, contrive, or complot any ill,   'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor