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as in to plot
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends
conspired to replace the leader with someone more easily influenced
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as in to cooperate
to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end
foul weather and airline foul-ups seemed to be conspiring to ruin our vacation
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Recent Examples of conspire
After a three-hour deliberation on Tuesday, the jury found Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring with Cox to kill Charles Vallow in July 2019.
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
In January 2019, Ellie pleaded guilty to an adult charge of conspiring to murder her father, Aaron.
—Megan Kelly Brown, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Prosecutors are accusing Vallow Daybell of conspiring with her late brother, Alex Cox, to murder her late husband, Charles Vallow, to benefit from a $1 million life insurance policy and marry another man, Chad Daybell, in 2019.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Prosecutors told jurors the brothers were lying and had conspired to kill their parents with shotguns purchased two days earlier in San Diego using false identification.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
In January 2019, Ellie pleaded guilty to an adult charge of conspiring to murder her father, Aaron.
—Megan Kelly Brown, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Prosecutors are accusing Vallow Daybell of conspiring with her late brother, Alex Cox, to murder her late husband, Charles Vallow, to benefit from a $1 million life insurance policy and marry another man, Chad Daybell, in 2019.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Prosecutors told jurors the brothers were lying and had conspired to kill their parents with shotguns purchased two days earlier in San Diego using false identification.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspire
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Victoria Goodwin has accepted a plea deal for her involvement in plotting her estranged husband Aaron Goodwin’s murder.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Leaders assume everything is fine, not realizing that high performers are masters at appearing fine while already plotting their next move.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The nightclub owner also vowed to cooperate with an investigation spearheaded by a Dominican Republic committee, which reportedly includes local and international experts and investigators.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Products from Cambodia would face duties of more than 3,500% because its producers elected not to cooperate with the U.S. probe.—
Nichola Groom,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Kiffin often schemed open the first read, and Dart operated almost entirely out of the shotgun.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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That is complicit with scheming orchestrated by politicized bureaucrats.—
Jack Fowler,
National Review,
7 Apr. 2025
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For three decades, professor Ken Kosik has been collaborating with researchers in the United States and Colombia to better understand the causes of Alzheimer's.—
Karen Weintraub,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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The two schools have collaborated extensively on research including clean energy and climate change for decades.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The two sides have tried – and failed – multiple times to reach an agreement to unite the two separate Palestinian territories under one governance structure, with a 2017 agreement quickly folding in violence.—
Ibrahim Dahman,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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Rather than trying to unite urban progressivism and rural pragmatism, Democrats often depend on anti-Trump messaging or niche issues that fail to reach places like Ocean City, Salisbury or Bel Air.—
Marc Lester,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Conspire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspire. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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