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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
connive .
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Examples
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Camerer, said, however, that Maduna appeared to have "connived" with the judge on the issue.
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Maduna appeared to have "connived" with the judge on the issue.
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Remember, how Bedi "connived" with Hindi channels in 2005 to find out the Match the
The Times of India Offside 2010
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Further, far from finding myself compelled "to disregard or dismiss evidence of connivance by some British agencies or individuals in Cetnik collaboration with the Axis," I take care to note that the Cetniks as well as the Titoists ” with whom we also "connived" ” made tactical deals with the Axis.
Yugoslavia & the British Wheeler, M.C. 1986
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John XXIII connived to ensure that Czech reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake—even as his own position became insecure.
How the Secular World Began Eric Ormsby 2011
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Critics charged, however, that the president connived at legislative changes, making it possible for him to run for a third term, a decision that was bad for democracy.
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She says the men connived at their own obliteration from history, overwhelmed at learning of the deaths of Scott and the other members of the south pole party, for which any one of them could have been selected.
Scott of the Antarctic anniversary to focus on science, not the sideshow 2011
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Critics charged, however, that the president connived at legislative changes, making it possible for him to run for a third term, a decision that was bad for democracy.
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That was my cover story, at least, sworn to secrecy as I was, on the awesome news of the Tähtivaeltaja Award -- and thereby sworn to secrecy also on the further awesomeness of Toni Jerrman and Hanna Hakkarainen who'd connived to bring this poverty-stricken writer over and put me up for a week, bless em.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Who connived, plotted and planned for it to become law?
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