conspire
Example Sentences
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In the end, Erling Haaland's 150th goal for the club mattered little as they have conspired to drop six points in a week, giving a major boost to Arsenal.
From BBC
And so, on a dark road on a winter's night somewhere between Coronation Street's Manchester setting and Emmerdale's West Yorkshire home, circumstances conspire to bring characters from both camps together.
From BBC
In popular usage, it assumes the thing signified must be false, whereas people do conspire, and it is reasonable to devise theories about their schemes.
“All of these things are going to conspire to keep what we call the uncertainty index elevated,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
Attorney Kelly Lyons said that Kahn conspired to “defraud dozens of investors who had invested approximately $360 million” through “lies, deception, misleading statements and material omissions.”
From Los Angeles Times
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