conspire
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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
We're always looking for a way to conspire to come back, maybe it's work or some other way.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
Even the candles conspire, getting shorter as time grows shorter.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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
"Office Space" falls apart in its third act when the trio clumsily conspires to rip off Initech.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024
I try to remain calm, but the body conspires against that, tries to drown me in distortion.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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
However, long before that, circumstances conspired to give him the opportunity to represent the US.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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
The four firms allegedly conspired to roughly double container prices between 2019 and 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
“I am heartbroken and ashamed to fail her on such an important occasion, but alas! Circumstances have conspired against me, just as they did on that long-ago day in the milk bath....”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
The pair admitted to charges of conspiring to commit unauthorised acts against TfL under the Computer Misuse Act.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to 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 ● Jun. 2, 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
The Quintanas were each sentenced in February 2024 in Miami’s federal court to serve 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to failing to make customs declarations and conspiring against the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The case involved Indiana citizens convicted by a military tribunal of conspiring to aid the Confederacy during the war.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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