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Recent Examples of conspiratorially
That Hanson so could faithfully and conspiratorially convey that in her naturalistic, uncontrived images came from a place of friendship.
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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Mark Holgate, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiratorially
Adverb
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From there, they are forced to deal with an aging group of matriarchs (June Squibb, Annette O’Toole and Marceline Hugot) who covertly run the town—not to mention the cold and calculating brothel manager Enid (Margo Martindale).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Just last year researchers using similar brain imaging methods found that one in four behaviorally unresponsive patients was covertly conscious.—
Andrew Chapman,
Scientific American,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Yet on this evening, the four women—a German, a Pole, a Belgian and a Frenchwoman—were playing Beethoven’s masterpiece, clandestinely since Jewish musicians were not considered worthy of playing such magnificent German works and were doing so just for their own pleasure.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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To boost their morale, Washington had the play clandestinely produced for his troops at Valley Forge during an especially bleak winter.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Changing congressional maps in a bid to ensure one party’s victory over another — called gerrymandering — has typically been done more furtively.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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If some have surreptitiously slipped into the cart, throw them under the (school) bus.—
Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2025
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By the episode's end, however, he's set his sights on Morgan, having surreptitiously slipped a note into her grocery bag.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Conspiratorially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorially. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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