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• No wonder these conspiring factors decimated the ludodiversity of the children's play lore.2015, Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook, Jim Parry, Ethics and Governance in Sport: The Future of Sport Imagined, page 58. From the entry ludodiversity
• Black Pete and Sinterklaas also conspire to form a punitive team.2013 December 4, Arnon Grunberg, “Why the Dutch Love Black Pete”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry Sinterklaas
• “Conspiring to keep unworthy children from being included in birthday parties, play dates, and Scout troops.”2006 March 21, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, chapter 2, in A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry mafiosa
• The paranoic thinks that everyone and everything are conspiring against him.1997, Trudy Govier, “Socrates, the Sting Ray of Athens”, in Socrates’ Children: Thinking and Knowing in the Western Tradition…. From the entry pronoia
• Later, on discovering the truth, she conspires with other women to conceal it.1988 February 14, Louise Rice, quoting Angela Bowen, “Confronting The Mythology Of Motherhood”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number…. From the entry on
• A US judge dismissed a case against MBS for conspiring to kill Khashoggi, saying he had head-of-state immunity.2022 December 7, Peter Bergen, “Opinion: How MBS went from pariah to ‘comeback prince’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023. From the entry MBS
• Now my father, the toad, conspires to sell me like a cheese to some lack-wit seeking a wife.1994, Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy, page 5. From the entry lack-wit
• In order to topple the dictatorship of the proletariat, they can only resort to pursuing splittism and intriguing and conspiring.1976 October 22 [1976 October 20], “Taiyuan Meeting Pledges Unity Around CCPCC”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I…. From the entry Yangchu
• "You're a pair of conspiring females," he growled.1969, Erich Kästner, translated by Cyrus Brooks, Lottie and Lisa, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC. From the entry lead someone up the garden path
• EBay has accused three Amazon managers of illegally conspiring to poach its sellers, escalating a monthslong feud between two of the country’s largest e-commerce companies.2019 August 1, Karen Weise, “EBay Accuses Amazon Managers of Conspiring to Poach Its Sellers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry poach
• London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in The New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013. From the entry deep
• This was hardly arrivisme on my part: I was “down” with my fellow American radicals, not conspiring with a bunch of aristos and expats.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 226. From the entry arrivisme
• Xenomorphosis occurs when the empirical elements of projected sound and image conspire to negate and destroy, through the retina, neuro-pathways designed to domesticate and tranquilize.1997, Millennium Film Journal, numbers 30-36, page 52. From the entry xenomorphosis
• The case of the Malinau study provides an excellent example of how the social and political elements conspire to ineffectuate expert-led decisionmaking in the environmental planning process.2005, Morgan de Dapper, Tropical forests in a changing global context, page 85. From the entry ineffectuate
• You don't just toss around charges that the possible next president of the United States is conspiring to take the vote away from American soldiers overseas.2000 November 21, Josh Marshall, quoting Peter Deutsch, “TPM Editor's Blog”, in Talking Points Memo. From the entry blood libel
• However, no merely formal safeguards can be effective against the power lust of persons who conspire to depotentise the very provisions intended to restrain just such persons as themselves.1998, Madhava Ashish -, Relating to Reality. From the entry depotentise
• It seems more likely that the "vowel-final target" motivation conspired with an second motivation — possibly simply a tendency to make words bulkier by accruing a "degrammaticized" augment.1995, Nicholas Evans, A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry degrammaticize
• Like Hardcastle, the gardener’s boy of Freddy’s youth, who had moved back and forth, remotely attending to things, unloquacious, unsmiling, totally unwilling to conspire in Freddy’s games.1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 3. From the entry unloquacious
• Chase, and I learned with amazement that Chase was conspiring with his friends to secure the nomination for the Presidency, and was untrue and unloyal to his chief.1911, Shelby M. Cullom, Fifty Years of Public Service. From the entry unloyal
• Taking advantage of her haughty obliviousness—Faris is every bit Margaret Dumont to Baron Cohen’s Groucho—Aladeen conspires to seize power back and tear up the new constitution before it’s too late.2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry tear up
• In each, however, the ritualistic quality of the prosody (following from the genres of invocation and epitaph) conspires with other elements to push the poem toward the condition of speakerlessness.1993, Jay Parini, The Columbia History of American Poetry, page 106. From the entry speakerlessness

Meaning of conspire

1. verb To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.
2. verb To agree, to concur to one end.
3. verb To work together to bring about.

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How do you use conspire in a sentence?

Conspire is used as a verb. For example: “Rain and sweat conspired to smudge her mascara.”

What is a short sentence with conspire?

“"You're a pair of conspiring females," he growled.”

What does conspire mean?

Conspire means to secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.