conspire

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

A statement released by South Korea's National Police Agency revealed that the four suspects operated independently of one another, and did not conspire together.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 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

It’s like if you want something bad enough, the universe conspires to make it happen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

“Office Space” falls apart in its third act when the trio clumsily conspires to rip off Initech.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream,” said the alchemist, echoing the words of the old king.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

He notes that when OpenAI agents conspired to break out of their testing “sandbox” and hacked into the machine-learning platform Hugging Face, it set “off a firestorm in American politics and global politics.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against senior Trump administration officials and three private organizations, alleging they conspired to deprive him of his constitutional rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

Harys Swyft and Grand Maester Pycelle had abandoned her to captivity and offered the realm to the very men who had conspired against her.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It also apparently has some weird all-knowing knowledge, because it warns its clueless mom about all the evil characters conspiring to abort the baby.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 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

A former federal health official has been indicted on charges of conspiring to conceal records from the public in connection with Covid-19 research grants, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

At Bod’s approach they looked up, startled, then fled into the undergrowth, as if they had been caught conspiring.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman