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camarilla

noun

Definition of camarilla

as in cabal

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Recent Examples of camarilla Russia does not have institutions so much as a camarilla of oligarchs around the leader. — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018

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Perhaps that silence is also designed by a billionaire cabal.

— Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
The screenplay alternates between info dumps and basic lines of dialogue delivered stonily by an international cabal of anonymous stuntmen.

— Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of cabal

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Seneca said the renaming violated the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, which was signed by President George Washington and the Haudenosaunee confederacy promising perpetual peace and friendship.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
July 4 birthed independence but also a dysfunctional confederacy.

— Max Taves, Mercury News, 3 July 2026

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Corruption schemes The first indictment, filed in Miami in 2019, accuses Pulido and Saab of participating in a money laundering conspiracy involving a Venezuelan government contract to build low-income housing.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
Orphaned, the children are taken in by their irreverent aunt Berta, and begin a new life in the big city in a house frequented by intellectuals and where all kinds of political conspiracies are hatched.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of conspiracy

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Industry middlemen acted like a cartel, making sure things never had the potential to change.

— Adam Duxter, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
There’s irony, Gilbert said, in realizing that his father has played rapists, drug dealers, and cartel members without audiences mistaking their beliefs for his own.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cartel

Noun

The moratorium will apply to Cornell University, its residential and nonresidential sorority and fraternity organizations, general student organizations, and university student affiliations, according to Ithaca's mayor, Robert Cantelmo.

— Jared Ochacher, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Social events where fraternities and sororities mix with one another and with unaffiliated members are usually at least registered with university officials.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

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