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Recent Examples of conspiratorial
The youngest chewing-gum seller would adopt the conspiratorial tones of a seasoned Kremlinologist, seeing signs and premonitions in every event.
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Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Rather than offer compassion or understanding, the mayor chose to repost a conspiratorial crackpot and a cruel, inaccurate meme.
—Dean Kertesz, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Is Eyes Wide Shut a conspiratorial warning about the dark forces controlling our societies in the shadows?
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
The release date rolled around and the cups quickly sold out nationwide, with disappointed customers left empty-handed and full of conspiratorial theories.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Rather than offer compassion or understanding, the mayor chose to repost a conspiratorial crackpot and a cruel, inaccurate meme.
—Dean Kertesz, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Is Eyes Wide Shut a conspiratorial warning about the dark forces controlling our societies in the shadows?
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
The release date rolled around and the cups quickly sold out nationwide, with disappointed customers left empty-handed and full of conspiratorial theories.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiratorial
Adjective
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To create this unique cinematic experience, Stewart and Poots endured rigorous trial-and-error shoots, tough training days in clandestine New York pool houses.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
13 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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Danish media reported that at least three people with connections to Trump carried out covert influence operations in Greenland.—
Emma Burrows,
Fortune,
10 Jan. 2026
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Federal statute mandates the president inform a bipartisan group of eight, high-ranking members of Congress prior to particularly covert operations.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
7 Jan. 2026
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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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At the cottage, our protagonists replace the furtive glances and locker-room tension from earlier episodes with quiet intimacy and words of affirmation.—
Chris Dong,
USA Today,
27 Dec. 2025
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In a grimy gray wig and sober black suit that subtly but pointedly leaps a century forward from the play’s origins to recall the Founding Fathers, Matthew Broderick’s Tartuffe speaks like the grandpa next door and pads across the stage with furtive footsteps, a monster masquerading as a mouse.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorial. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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