Thesaurus results for CONSPIRING

conspiring

verb

present participle of conspire

as in plotting

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 cooperating

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 conspiring Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, who were arrested on March 7 outside Gracie Mansion, were charged with eight crimes, including providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction for the attack, federal prosecutors said. —

Alex Stambaugh, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026 Of those, five pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Haiti’s president while a sixth pleaded guilty to smuggling ballistic vests into the Caribbean country. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026 Hate Crimes Prevention Act, obstructing justice and conspiring to obstruct justice. —

Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 1 Apr. 2026 They were also found guilty of conspiring to do that together. —

ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026 Fanatics, along with the NFL, NBA and MLB and their players’ associations, recently secured the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit brought by five men who accuse the company, leagues and players’ associations of conspiring to raise trading card prices. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Mar. 2026 The jury acquitted Kelly on separate charges of conspiring to rig his prior Cook County child pornography trial. —

Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026 Somebody seems to be conspiring to arm Oslo’s two rival gangs, a looming civil war that the city’s police — most prohibited from carrying guns — will be unable to stop. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026 The 56-year-old Chinese national, Stanley Yi Zheng, allegedly began conspiring with Americans Matthew Kelly and Tommy Shad English about smuggling the chips to China in May 2023. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026

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One tells a story of an A-list actress, aided by some of the biggest celebrities in the world who include husband Ryan Reynolds and friend Taylor Swift, plotting to seize control of a director’s passion project.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
The vote and its aftermath – which included a January 6-style riot at the national capital complex in Brasilia – ended with Bolsonaro sentenced to over 27 years in prison, convicted with numerous other officials of plotting a self-coup.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026