Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of conspiring.
- noun A joint effort directed toward a goal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Conspiracy.
- noun Concurrence; mutual tendency in action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.
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Examples
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Convention que j'appelle sur cette vaste conspiration.
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Another right wing conspiration to neutralize members of the liberal media with toothaches.
Beat 360° 10/21/08 2008
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Their critical scepticismcannot prevent the theory and experience of spiritual energy from combining to warn us that WE HAVE REACHED A DECISIVE POINT IN HUMAN EVOLUTION, at which the only way forward is in the direction of a common passion~ a conspiration.
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It sounded to me like a silence conspiration - or maybe I was looking for excuses?
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For in a manner all things are implicated with one another, and all in this way are friendly to one another; for one thing comes in order after another, and this is by virtue of the active movement and mutual conspiration and the unity of the substance.
The Meditations 2004
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Well, mes amis, la vaste conspiration gauche de médias d'aile, or what you've come to know as the Vast Left Wing Media Conspiracy is ramping up their pre-election efforts to slander the Commander In Chief.
Archive 2004-03-07 Spectre 2004
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Tom Wealdon used to remark, with a chuckle, from time to time, in the thick of the fuss and conspiration which was the breath of his nostrils; and, doubtless, so they are, and were, and ever will be, until the time-honoured machinery of our election system has been overhauled, and adapted to the civilisation of these days.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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Briefly, in such a world without order and array, owing nothing, lending nothing, and borrowing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Briefly, in such a world without order and array, owing nothing, lending nothing, and borrowing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I would like to know what is the logic behind this course of action taken by the interest section, because, if according to your reasoning, there is a conspiration behind this, wasn't it better just to send the diplomat home so that the Elian case could move on without any other complications?
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