intriguer

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Noun
  • Sklarov and other conspirators told Salinas that Astor was originally established from the wealth of John Jacob Astor and that the company had high-profile clients including universities and investment funds, prosecutors said.
    Dave Collins, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Meade, who at the time was eight years into a minimum 10-year prison sentence, devised a plan with co-conspirator Nicholas Umphenour to coordinate his escape from custody.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 5 May 2026
Noun
  • Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Mike McDaniel is the exact schemer and play caller who can maximize this skill set, though.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Now, instead of waging war with whitetails, Williams focuses full-time on growing and selling mushroom spawn to food plotters and habitat managers through his family business, MycoHabitat.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But the plotters have not stopped plotting, and the UCI is back at the table, accepting what proponents of reform — almost all but not all WorldTour teams — have been preaching for a while: the sport has to evolve to keep relevant.
    Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As a result, he was tried in absentia, declared a traitor and subjected to the state’s harshest penalties.
    Kimberly Nath, The Conversation, 7 May 2026
  • Linking their destinities is a man—presumably the traitor’s son of the title—with the extra wrinkle that Elegy is fated to fall in love with him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • The documentary made the case, again, that Aziz and Islam were innocent, asserted Bradley’s guilt, and named other coconspirators.
    Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The first lady also addressed an email that was released from the Epstein files, showing her correspondence via email with Epstein’s coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
    Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.
    Ryan Cooper, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Intriguer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intriguer. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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