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Recent Examples of conspiratorial
In the past several years, Edge had filed a string of civil lawsuits with rambling, sometimes conspiratorial claims.
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Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
Couldn’t a handful have said Pete Hegseth running the Pentagon is dubious enough, but giving a conspiratorial lunatic power over the Centers for Disease Control is a bridge far too far?
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Written by Spike Jonze and Halina Reijn, the 30-minute short stars Moore as the mother of Palmer, Page, and a conspiratorial Edward Norton.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Neither a lengthy period of incarceration nor a pardon will cure people like Meredith of their conspiratorial mind-set, the expert told me.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
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Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
Couldn’t a handful have said Pete Hegseth running the Pentagon is dubious enough, but giving a conspiratorial lunatic power over the Centers for Disease Control is a bridge far too far?
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Written by Spike Jonze and Halina Reijn, the 30-minute short stars Moore as the mother of Palmer, Page, and a conspiratorial Edward Norton.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Neither a lengthy period of incarceration nor a pardon will cure people like Meredith of their conspiratorial mind-set, the expert told me.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiratorial
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The show’s original pair of fathers, who secretly orchestrate the clandestine love affair between their children, are now mothers.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2026
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Saimar Rivas, Armas’s partner and a longtime civil-rights activist, told me that he had been taken to a clandestine site run by the SEBIN, Venezuela’s intelligence agency.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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However, his team quickly secured their covert support in the form of money and supplies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Trump has authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out covert operations in the country and has left the door firmly open to unspecified land operations.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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But Prayer is not your humdrum, surreptitious post–Cowboy Carter cash-out.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages.—
Tim Griffin,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
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My feeling is that our vices have become more furtive and alone.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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October 29, 2025 Fifteen years ago, early experiences with cannabis went something like this: a furtive glance over the shoulder while passing a joint in a parking lot, or a chaotic brownie experiment gone off the rails.—
Kate Bernot,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorial. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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