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Recent Examples of conspiratorial
As evidence seems to implicate Russian agents in the attack, Mullen grows obsessed with a leftist hacktivist collective, a provocateur talk show host (Dan Stevens) who fans the conspiratorial flames and an extremist tech billionaire (Gaby Hoffman) who would be happy to tear the whole system down.
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Chris Vognar, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
In the cinema, headphones obviously weren’t required because film automatically brings us into a conspiratorial intimacy.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: Republicans haven't always held such negative or conspiratorial views of foreign aid.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
Service here is thoughtful and conspiratorial — none of the too-cool energy that seems to pervade speakeasies in other European cities.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
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Chris Vognar, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
In the cinema, headphones obviously weren’t required because film automatically brings us into a conspiratorial intimacy.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: Republicans haven't always held such negative or conspiratorial views of foreign aid.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
Service here is thoughtful and conspiratorial — none of the too-cool energy that seems to pervade speakeasies in other European cities.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiratorial
Adjective
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After authorities responded with mass arrests, weavers formed clandestine committees and took secret oaths.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Til Schweiger plays a sardonic whale-tourism boat captain (and former elite military operative, obviously) who gets roped into taking down a clandestine organization that’s building the perfect super-soldier through genetic experiments.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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After the unexpected death of the pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running the covert process of choosing a new leader.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Those documents gave curious readers more details about Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations, but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.—
Josh Funk and Haya Panjwani,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Reporters from around the country followed the case, which marked the first time ever that prosecutors would play for a jury a surreptitious FBI recording of mob soldiers taking the oath of omerta during a mafia initiation ceremony.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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For example: In 2003, a group of Providence, Rhode Island, artists embarked on a project combining installation art and surreptitious living arrangements.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
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Asked by the newspaper’s lawyers to explain how the furtive system worked, Mr. Frankel typed up a 14-page memo.—
David W. Dunlap,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Several of these involve a furtive religious cult known as the Scars — its adherents have a way of pussyfooting through the forest and doing absolutely horrible things to nonbelievers.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorial. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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