How to Use conspiracy theory in a Sentence
conspiracy theory
noun- Conspiracy theories sprung up soon after the leader's assassination.
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But as the stakes of the games rise in the 12-team CFP era, the conspiracy theories only get louder.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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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
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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
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The idea, then, that the election was stolen is a wild conspiracy theory.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
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Alex Jones spread the conspiracy theory that the massacre had been a hoax.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2021
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And the claim about bioweapons labs has been disproven as a conspiracy theory.
—Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
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Now he’s been out-righted by the right with the conspiracy theory stuff.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 31 May 2025
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Some strains of the conspiracy theory have aimed to tie the company to Soros and the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Dec. 2020
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People in this game can take any type of conspiracy theory and run with it.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021
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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
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Justin Bieber and the Obamas have also been named in the conspiracy theory.
—NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020
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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
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Red, of course, happens to be the color of the Netflix logo — hence the fan conspiracy theory.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
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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
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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
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In Britain, the conspiracy theory led people to set fire to dozens of wireless towers last year.
—Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2021
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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
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So it’s not the conspiracy theory doing things to them.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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In the past week, the Fox News host has invoked a racist conspiracy theory and questioned vaccines—and his bosses keep backing him.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2021
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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
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Ivanka has not yet responded to the backlash, which has now put her at the centre of a conspiracy theory — once again.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2021
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The QAnon conspiracy theory, often likened to a cult, has been blamed for some of the more extremist views held by Trump supporters.
—Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2021
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Even conspiracy theory was a neutral turn of phrase for many years—a piece of forensic jargon.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2021
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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
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The fires have sparked an array of conspiracy theories about their origin.
—Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
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When your worldview is based on a conspiracy theory, anything that doesn’t align with that theory becomes another conspiracy.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
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Reports showed far-right supporters spreading conspiracy theories accusing Biden of complicity contributing to a spike in political threats and violence in late 2024.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
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