How to Use conspire in a Sentence

conspire

verb
Definition of conspirenext
Synonyms for conspirenext
  • Any flying object, from a bee to a bird to a plane, has two major forces conspiring against it.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But the long wait ended when Jake and his sister conspired with the school to set up the ultimate surprise return.
    — Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • Trump has been charged with four counts related to conspiring to obstruct the results of the 2020 election.
    — Tobi Raji and Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Asked him about the propriety given he’s charged with conspiring to help Egypt.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • He was accused of conspiring with drug cartels to move more than 400 tons of cocaine toward the United States.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • This is just another example in a long list of democrats and the media conspiring against Trump attempting to thwart the will of the people.
    — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The weather may yet conspire against me, and 3 or 4 minutes of totality will be lost under a ceiling of clouds.
    — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Right or wrong, the feeling that greater forces conspired against the Bucks has been baked into how Milwaukee fans view all their sports and their small-market status.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But pretrial proceedings for four men accused of conspiring in the plot are now in their second decade.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But as any Hogwarts wizard knows, and as Cousins, a mother with a defiant streak, was quick to discover, many forces are conspiring to shape the world.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • Morgan, who also pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the US government, could face a maximum of five years in prison for the two counts.
    — Sabrina Willmer, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • She was also found guilty of conspiring to kill her children and her husband's first wife, Tamara Daybell.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 May 2023
  • That’s due to a variety of conspiring factors, like light pollution, the use of pesticides, and habitat loss.
    — WIRED, 12 June 2023
  • The duo face allegations of making false statements to the FBI, conspiring to commit wire fraud and committing wire fraud.
    — Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • For Greenland, many factors are conspiring to degrade the ice sheet: hotter air and ocean temperatures, less sea ice, and weaker ice shelves to hold back the glaciers on land.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • She is also accused of conspiring to kill her niece's husband, Brandon Boudreaux, in Arizona.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Desperate, Dudley conspired with Frances Grey to have his son Guildford marry her daughter in 1553.
    — Michael Farquhar, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • In a separate case in Arizona, she is charged with conspiring to murder her late husband, Charles Vallow.
    — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • When circumstances conspire to make Mason necessary to Citadel again, the reverse transition makes for a thorny process.
    — Chris Vognar, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But when somebody conspires to murder your entire family, that's not love.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But when somebody conspires to murder your entire family, that’s not love.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
  • In his day, as in ours, both conspired to keep the teacher immature and to make equanimity impossible.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • Prosecutors said McWhorter, who was three months past his 18th birthday at the time of the killing, conspired with two younger teenagers, including Williams' 15-year-old son, to steal money and other items from Williams' home and then kill him.
    — CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The resulting cycles of exposure to the greater world of skin care — not only the dermatologists who study it, but the brands that control it, and the people who crave it — have conspired to make Dr. Day a physician of some renown.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Briggs said most of the videos showed the actions of co-defendants and were only relevant under the government’s theory that White conspired with the others.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Over the years, Yoo filed a battery of lawsuits in New York and Virginia, accusing lawyers, judges, doctors and relatives of conspiring to violate his rights.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Thirty-one of them were arrested on suspicion of conspiring a riot, according to The Spokesman Review of Spokane.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • His wife, Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey businessmen accused of conspiring with the senator already pleaded not guilty to the same charges last week.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The applicant for the rezoning was convicted of a felony for conspiring to launder campaign money.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023
  • Texas lawmakers said the social media sites were conspiring to censor conservative voices and views, sometimes at the behest of the Biden White House.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023

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