Conspire
verb
To secretly plan with someone to do something bad, harmful, or illegal.
They conspired to take over the government.
Often appears as...
- conspire against
- conspire with
verb
To work together to make something happen, especially secretly or without directly causing it.
The elements seem to conspire against us whenever we plan a picnic.
Often appears as...
- conspire to create
- conspire to cause
verb
To secretly plan with someone to do something bad, harmful, or illegal.
They conspired to take over the government.
Often appears as...
- conspire against
- conspire with
verb
To work together to make something happen, especially secretly or without directly causing it.
The elements seem to conspire against us whenever we plan a picnic.
Often appears as...
- conspire to create
- conspire to cause
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative actions
'Conspire' often involves plans to harm someone or something, or break the law.
The corrupt officials conspired to embezzle funds.
Pro Tip 2/3Secretive nature
Plans made when conspiring are usually kept secret from outsiders.
The thieves conspired in hushed tones, glancing around nervously.
Pro Tip 3/3Group activity
'Conspire' implies that more than one person is involved in making the plans.
The siblings conspired to surprise their parents with a party.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative actions
'Conspire' often involves plans to harm someone or something, or break the law.
The corrupt officials conspired to embezzle funds.
Pro Tip 2/3Secretive nature
Plans made when conspiring are usually kept secret from outsiders.
The thieves conspired in hushed tones, glancing around nervously.
Pro Tip 3/3Group activity
'Conspire' implies that more than one person is involved in making the plans.
The siblings conspired to surprise their parents with a party.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative actions
'Conspire' often involves plans to harm someone or something, or break the law.
The corrupt officials conspired to embezzle funds.
Pro Tip 2/3Secretive nature
Plans made when conspiring are usually kept secret from outsiders.
The thieves conspired in hushed tones, glancing around nervously.
Pro Tip 3/3Group activity
'Conspire' implies that more than one person is involved in making the plans.
The siblings conspired to surprise their parents with a party.
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What Does It Take To Be...
functioning and you learn from it the moments when you get the shot everything conspires to make it work they're very rare but they're worth waiting for when that moment finally arrives and the light turns on the behavior happens the iceberg flows faster the right angle it makes your heart be faster they make the
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What can Schrödinger's...
before we measure the outcome. How is this possible? How is it that the states of cats on opposite sides of the universe can be entangled in this way? They're too far away to communicate with each other in time, so how do the two bombs always conspire such that one blows up and the other doesn't?
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How to Discover Your...
It’s easy. When you see someone having something that you believe you deserve, you take a note. You ask yourself a few questions. Is it something that you really want? Perhaps that person is better suited than you are for that. Does the universe -- is the universe conspiring for you to have that?
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Meet the dazzling flying...
what is the minimum number of moving parts needed for controlled flight? Now, there are practical reasons why you may want to know the answer to such a question. Helicopters, for example, are affectionately known as machines with a thousand moving parts all conspiring to do you bodily harm.
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Are athletes really...
whether that's new track surfaces or new swimming techniques, the democratization of sport, the spread to new bodies and to new populations around the world, and imagination in sport, an understanding of what the human body is truly capable of, have conspired to make athletes stronger,
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Tracking Plastic Sea to...
small island gets smaller each year it's a place where coastal erosion and rising sea levels have conspired to take nearly 90% of this land of this island over the last 50 years and there I met Chantal comer Dale we see Chantal sitting with her father boyo and her son in this
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Why you think you're...
Next, they went and looked through his personal history for any incriminating details. They talked to his teachers, they found that he had studied foreign languages in school, which clearly showed a desire to conspire with foreign governments later in life.
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What type of world do we...
with Jeremy Jackson who was on the first mission blue expedition to conspire with him and the people who live there to see what could be done to enhance their hope for a place that now has been protected and with with luck we'll continue to be
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The great conspiracy...
and elevating him to important posts. Brutus was hesitant to conspire against the man who had treated him like a son, but in the end, Cassius's insistence and Brutus's own fear of Caesar's ambitions won out.
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How to be your best self...
has been disrupted what can I do to find any focus and to pay attention to yeah I mean life is right now conspiring conspiring against any kind of focus and at the same time you know
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What Does It Take To Be...
functioning and you learn from it the moments when you get the shot everything conspires to make it work they're very rare but they're worth waiting for when that moment finally arrives and the light turns on the behavior happens the iceberg flows faster the right angle it makes your heart be faster they make the
Video examples
What can Schrödinger's...
before we measure the outcome. How is this possible? How is it that the states of cats on opposite sides of the universe can be entangled in this way? They're too far away to communicate with each other in time, so how do the two bombs always conspire such that one blows up and the other doesn't?
Video examples
How to Discover Your...
It’s easy. When you see someone having something that you believe you deserve, you take a note. You ask yourself a few questions. Is it something that you really want? Perhaps that person is better suited than you are for that. Does the universe -- is the universe conspiring for you to have that?
Video examples
Meet the dazzling flying...
what is the minimum number of moving parts needed for controlled flight? Now, there are practical reasons why you may want to know the answer to such a question. Helicopters, for example, are affectionately known as machines with a thousand moving parts all conspiring to do you bodily harm.
Video examples
Are athletes really...
whether that's new track surfaces or new swimming techniques, the democratization of sport, the spread to new bodies and to new populations around the world, and imagination in sport, an understanding of what the human body is truly capable of, have conspired to make athletes stronger,
Video examples
Tracking Plastic Sea to...
small island gets smaller each year it's a place where coastal erosion and rising sea levels have conspired to take nearly 90% of this land of this island over the last 50 years and there I met Chantal comer Dale we see Chantal sitting with her father boyo and her son in this
Video examples
Why you think you're...
Next, they went and looked through his personal history for any incriminating details. They talked to his teachers, they found that he had studied foreign languages in school, which clearly showed a desire to conspire with foreign governments later in life.
Video examples
What type of world do we...
with Jeremy Jackson who was on the first mission blue expedition to conspire with him and the people who live there to see what could be done to enhance their hope for a place that now has been protected and with with luck we'll continue to be
Video examples
The great conspiracy...
and elevating him to important posts. Brutus was hesitant to conspire against the man who had treated him like a son, but in the end, Cassius's insistence and Brutus's own fear of Caesar's ambitions won out.
Video examples
How to be your best self...
has been disrupted what can I do to find any focus and to pay attention to yeah I mean life is right now conspiring conspiring against any kind of focus and at the same time you know
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Ira Glass
American Journalist
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
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Andy Stern
American Activist
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
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Lydia Lunch
American Musician
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
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Gary Weiss
American Journalist
I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian Statesman
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American Poet
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Gabrielle Bernstein
American Author
The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.
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Ira Glass
American Journalist
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
Quote examples
Andy Stern
American Activist
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
Quote examples
Lydia Lunch
American Musician
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
Quote examples
Gary Weiss
American Journalist
I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.
Quote examples
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Indian Statesman
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Quote examples
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American Poet
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
Quote examples
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Quote examples
Marianne Williamson
American Author
The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Gabrielle Bernstein
American Author
The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.
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