conspire

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Conspire to set the price of the London interbank borrowing rate, or Libor, to the detriment of tens of millions of corporate and individual borrowers the world over?

From New York Times • May 28, 2015

Conspire to build a 23,000-tonne doughnut-shaped vessel called a tokamak, that is wrapped with 80,000km of superconducting wire, all to contain the plasma magnetically and, for the first time, produce fusion energy continuously.

From Economist • Sep. 18, 2014

Conspire, kon-spīr′, v.i. to plot or scheme together: to agree: to concur to one end.—v.t. to plan, devise.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

After their willful wandering that day Each is so tired it does not wake at all, Whilst over them the boughs that sigh and sway Conspire to make perpetual evenfall.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

All night the stealthy frost and fog Conspire to slay the rich-robed weeds and flowers: To strip of wealth the woods, and clog With piled-up gold of leaves the creek that cowers.

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius