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as in plotted
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends
conspired to replace the leader with someone more easily influenced
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as in collaborated
to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end
foul weather and airline foul-ups seemed to be conspiring to ruin our vacation
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Recent Examples of conspired
In the false traffic stop and arrest scenario, Coberg conspired with Iza in September 2021 to lure another rival from Miami to Los Angeles to set him up for a false drug arrest, prosecutors say.
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City News Service, Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
The plea agreement further states that from March 2020 to March 2022, Hallford and her husband conspired to defraud the SBA by submitting loan applications containing false information to obtain COVID-19 relief funds and received three separate disbursements from the SBA, totaling $882,300.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
Both teams … the Heat and the Wizards … conspired with their flopping and intentional fouling to get him to 83.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026
Federal prosecutors are seeking to prove that four South Florida men conspired to kill Moïse by hiring former Colombian soldiers to execute the deadly attack more than four years ago at his home in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
Once a sky-blue democracy is restored, may Trump’s days of infamy be ruled illegitimate and his name and legacy duly tainted by all of history, darkly blackened or cautiously reddened in the honest records that this twerp and his twisted cohorts have conspired so heinously to whitewash.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
The case centered on an allegation that the league and other owners conspired in violation of antitrust law to exclude the plaintiff.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Lawmakers and people who accused Epstein of abuse aim to track down powerful business and political leaders who might have conspired with him besides Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
The core of his allegation is that the CEO built a company ostensibly as a nonprofit with his money and then conspired against him with Brockman by turning it into a for-profit for their personal gain.
—Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
City News Service, Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
The plea agreement further states that from March 2020 to March 2022, Hallford and her husband conspired to defraud the SBA by submitting loan applications containing false information to obtain COVID-19 relief funds and received three separate disbursements from the SBA, totaling $882,300.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
Both teams … the Heat and the Wizards … conspired with their flopping and intentional fouling to get him to 83.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026
Federal prosecutors are seeking to prove that four South Florida men conspired to kill Moïse by hiring former Colombian soldiers to execute the deadly attack more than four years ago at his home in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
Once a sky-blue democracy is restored, may Trump’s days of infamy be ruled illegitimate and his name and legacy duly tainted by all of history, darkly blackened or cautiously reddened in the honest records that this twerp and his twisted cohorts have conspired so heinously to whitewash.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
The case centered on an allegation that the league and other owners conspired in violation of antitrust law to exclude the plaintiff.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Lawmakers and people who accused Epstein of abuse aim to track down powerful business and political leaders who might have conspired with him besides Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
The core of his allegation is that the CEO built a company ostensibly as a nonprofit with his money and then conspired against him with Brockman by turning it into a for-profit for their personal gain.
—Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspired
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Based on the second novel in Freida McFadden’s novel series, The Housemaid’s Secret sees Sydney Sweeney’s Millie Calloway, the housemaid with a troubled past, uncovering a deadly scheme plotted by her employer, Wendy Garrick, who manipulates events to frame Millie for murder.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
15 Mar. 2026
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Justin Bieber has had multiple stalkers, including a New Mexico man and his nephew who plotted to murder and castrate the pop singer in 2013.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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Looking back at the Chelsea win offers multiple reminders of how well the strikers collaborated with the rest of the team that night.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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Before her Saturn return, she’s already collaborated with all of those icons, turning in newly definitive performances in their work.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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San Francisco jurors stopped short of finding the Texas billionaire intentionally schemed to defraud investors.—
Staff,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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The Democratic primary was uncontested after Garcia quietly schemed to place his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, on the ballot without any Democratic competition.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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The truck driver, a woman who lives in another city, stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, according to police.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The driver of the trailer stayed after the crash scene and cooperated with law enforcement, police said.—
Kelsey Brown,
San Antonio Express-News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Chase scenes through the jungle and an FBI raid on a clinic providing treatment to the poor are united by the series’s overarching alignment with David against big pharma’s Goliath, an identity that feels as essential to the show as cutie creatures like Marshall’s tortoise Socrates.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Clint Eastwood and Hackman united decades later for 1992's Unforgiven, and Hackman won another Oscar for playing Little Bill, the black-hat sheriff infused with Popeye DNA.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Conspired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspired. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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