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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 ● Jan. 2, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Circumstances can conspire against us, but there should be room for improvement.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025

And how did he and his co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago staff members Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, conspire to resist the government’s lawful demands to return the documents?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

Prison and the authorities conspire to rob each man of his dignity.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Kovalchuk publicly praised the 1968 Soviet movie “Dead Season,” in which the CIA conspires with former Nazi doctors to control humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

And year after year, the calendar conspires to help them.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

The trees’ “relationship with the landscape” is changing, she said, as a tiny beetle conspires with climate change to bring down the giant ambassadors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2024

"When you commit to a journey, the universe conspires to help you," Smith told a beaming Mr Barry, citing author Paulo Coelho.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024

Anyone who conspires cannot act alone, nor can he find companions except from amongst those whom he believes to be discontented.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Four goals up on aggregate against LASK, O'Neill's Celtic somehow conspired to implode in a second half with little sign of a response on the way to a 5-4 aggregate loss.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But elite club soccer and the Major League Soccer academies have conspired to kill it by prohibiting their players from participating in high school or middle school programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The Iran war, soaring jet-fuel prices, and the soccer World Cup have all conspired to make domestic travel in the U.S. incredibly pricey.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

But McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said the team still had the margin to stay ahead of Antonelli when they did stop three laps after him, but that a series of events conspired against them.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton’s incredible energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Ukrainian national Lavrynovych, and Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, have now been convicted at the Old Bailey of conspiring to target property and a car connected to the UK prime minister.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

“I’m hoping that you would, especially since you’re a decent man, Dale, that you would prevail upon whoever is conspiring to resurrect the Confederacy to remove this thing,” the 86-year-old Fraser said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

A Ukrainian man accused of conspiring to set fire to a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer has told a court that he refused to film the attack despite an alleged accomplice "begging" him to.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to the federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct Aspiration as a “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products” firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Why had I put all my effort into Gillian and Shriya, who’d so quickly dropped me and were probably actively conspiring against me now?

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely