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Other conspiratorial posts from right-wing accounts explained their skepticism of Allen by pointing to past frustrations with the government’s failure to release information about Butler, the Epstein files, or details about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
This lucidity not only makes his work readable but also staves off the perception that discourse about UFOs and the CIA must be riddled with conspiratorial paranoia.
—Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
For starters, Holt said he's seen no indication that the defendant was steeped in conspiratorial thinking.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
But as long as people are uncertain about or dissatisfied with the underlying explanations for why an incident happened, Parsons says, telling them that staging was physically unlikely can just invite more conspiratorial speculation.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
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Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
This lucidity not only makes his work readable but also staves off the perception that discourse about UFOs and the CIA must be riddled with conspiratorial paranoia.
—Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
For starters, Holt said he's seen no indication that the defendant was steeped in conspiratorial thinking.
—Odette Yousef, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
But as long as people are uncertain about or dissatisfied with the underlying explanations for why an incident happened, Parsons says, telling them that staging was physically unlikely can just invite more conspiratorial speculation.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiratorial
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The nine-month investigation documented a decade-long legal drama involving shell companies, trusts, allegedly collusive lawsuits and bankruptcy petitions.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Some may be announced publicly; others may happen in more clandestine ways.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
10 June 2026
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But clandestine flows aren’t the biggest factor behind the market calm.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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The film follows cybersecurity expert Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), who lifts secret files about the existence of aliens from Wardex, a covert non-government organization that used to employ him.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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The investigation also linked the activity to China based on IP addresses associated with a LinkedIn account and a Gmail account tied to the covert recruitment scheme.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
10 June 2026
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Related Stories Known to be a rebellious royal and a surreptitious anti-fascist, Maria José then moved to Portugal and soon left her husband.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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TiVo is often chastised for being surreptitious about its data collection practices and its failure to provide a clear privacy policy.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 May 2026
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Of course, the modern, rapidly changing technological means of war, being vastly more versatile, fast, furtive, precise, numerous, farther reaching and lethal, will necessitate revisiting the principles of just wars.—
Keith Tidman,
Baltimore Sun,
15 June 2026
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In Obeid, capital of North Kordofan, near-daily drone barrages have imposed a furtive rhythm to residents’ lives, making every trip to the market, school, health clinic or a relative’s home a gamble.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorial. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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