conspire
Example Sentences
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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
"Here, it helped guide us to think about how the cell density, proliferation rate, signaling, and all these different things conspire."
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
Circumstances — “the confluence of Labor Day and the kids being back in school” — could conspire to push transmission rates higher, Hudson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024
And on the outside, I might care that I’m using his sympathy or guilt to get him to conspire with me, but what other choice do I have?
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.