conspiratorial

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Recent Examples of conspiratorial Hayakawa calibrates her story to the volume of a whisper, as if in a conspiratorial conversation with her own memories. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025 The movie is calibrated to the volume of a whisper, as if Hayakawa is in a conspiratorial conversation with her own memories. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025 The aide also flagged conspiratorial thinking, megalomania, roller-coaster emotions and questioned whether Fetterman was taking medication prescribed to combat his depression. Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 12 May 2025 In a way that did not make sense to her, the sealed letter, which had previously had an erotic, conspiratorial weight to it, now had a shameful air. Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for conspiratorial
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Adjective
  • Syria under Assad is believed to have operated an extensive clandestine nuclear program, which included an undeclared nuclear reactor built by North Korea in eastern Deir el-Zour province.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 June 2025
  • The only way to pre-empt detection by these IAEA watchdogs would be for Ukraine to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and expel the atomic inspectors, but those moves would amount to trumpeting Kyiv’s clandestine quest to develop a nuclear warhead.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • Russia's latest barrages followed last weekend's covert Ukrainian operation in which agents used more than 100 drones concealed in large trucks to attack strategic bomber bases deep inside Russia.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • Russia’s attacks on Friday come two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to retaliate against Ukraine for its highly successful Operation Spider’s Web covert strike on Russia on June 1.
    Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Reporters from around the country followed the case, which marked the first time ever that prosecutors would play for a jury a surreptitious FBI recording of mob soldiers taking the oath of omerta during a mafia initiation ceremony.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2025
  • For example: In 2003, a group of Providence, Rhode Island, artists embarked on a project combining installation art and surreptitious living arrangements.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In this setting, the episode shifts between covert conversations, furtive looks, confrontations behind doors, and everything in between.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Asked by the newspaper’s lawyers to explain how the furtive system worked, Mr. Frankel typed up a 14-page memo.
    David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorial. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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