How to Use conspiracy theory in a Sentence

conspiracy theory

noun
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  • Conspiracy theories sprung up soon after the leader's assassination.
  • The bio made a reference to Ray Epps, the man at the center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2022
  • That includes a long line of conspiracy theories and his claim that a worm ate part of his brain.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The idea, then, that the election was stolen is a wild conspiracy theory.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Alex Jones spread the conspiracy theory that the massacre had been a hoax.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2021
  • And the claim about bioweapons labs has been disproven as a conspiracy theory.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • People in this game can take any type of conspiracy theory and run with it.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Ron Watkins, who has ties to the QAnon conspiracy theory, is considered a long shot in his House run.
    — Meg Kinnard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In many ways, this truly ugly conspiracy theory has some roots right here in the Golden State of the 1990s.
    — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
  • Red, of course, happens to be the color of the Netflix logo — hence the fan conspiracy theory.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The idea that Enty has been pulled into the QAnon conspiracy theory had been floating around for a while.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Now, the conspiracy theory might be that those in uniform for Kansas City were not the real Chiefs since their play was so bad!
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • But in the end, the conspiracy theory part didn’t interest me as much as the moral existential part of the story.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • So it’s not the conspiracy theory doing things to them.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Of course, many who were not months deep into the conspiracy theory found the report to be skeptical.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Chang said the rhetoric on pro-Trump sites, which had largely been anti-Putin in the first days of the war, has shifted because of the biolab conspiracy theory.
    — NBC News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Part of it is so many people are watching so many YouTube videos and going so crazy with conspiracy theories.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In 2006, a conspiracy theory did the rounds claiming that Eminem had been killed in a car crash and replaced by an android body double.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The fires have sparked an array of conspiracy theories about their origin.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Hey, there’s always the conspiracy theory that RM has a secret second album on the way.
    — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Dancing pumps and darkness retreats and the dumbest and darkest conspiracy theories, and that’s just the short list of weirdness.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
  • This isn’t the first time that Kojima has been embroiled in a conspiracy theory.
    — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • That three of these four men did not speak to one another did not put a dent in Mr. Kostelanetz’s conspiracy theory.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • But that was a whole 12 months ago, and in the time since, Musk has continued to welcome fringe far-right views to X and endorsed troubling conspiracy theories himself.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Tangent Right-wing provocateurs have spread a string of conspiracy theories about the reason for the bridge collapse.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This is a real issue, no matter who raises it or who tries to dismiss it out of hand as a conspiracy theory.
    — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Breest’s team has chalked up the argument to a conspiracy theory.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • So what has Klepper learned from the conspiracy theory beat?
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2022
  • What the aftermath of the Arizona sham audit proves is that this election fraud conspiracy theory just won't die.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Fort Knox has long been the subject of conspiracy theories regarding its contents.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025

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