conspiratorial

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Recent Examples of conspiratorial Tennessee’s brief, meanwhile, presents a much more conspiratorial picture. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Nov. 2024 Caitlin Owens Dec 18, 2023 - Health Trump embraces conspiratorial language to attack Big Pharma In his first campaign for president, Donald Trump tapped into bipartisan anger over high drug prices to bash pharmaceutical companies. Caitlin Owens, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024 David Gilbert: The Constitutional Sheriffs movement has always been infused with a level of conspiratorial thinking. Leah Feiger, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024 But as western North Carolina begins what will no doubt be a long rebuilding effort, local suspicions about the agency have mounted, amplified by national political figures sharing conspiratorial ideas. Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for conspiratorial 
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Adjective
  • Through clandestine operations and cyberattacks, the country sabotaged key Iranian nuclear facilities.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • She's Helen, an agent passing on tips from high up in the Prime Minister's office to a clandestine agency (her loving husband happens to be Britain's defense minister).
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But all of that changed starting in 2017, when Mr. Trump became president amid the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s covert attempt to manipulate the 2016 election and the nature of the ties between his campaign and Moscow.
    Charlie Savage, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The indictment shows that the FBI unraveled some of the covert schemes and identified specific perpetrators.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • However, when intentions are left surreptitious, fashion can be used as a political weapon.
    Chloe Iris Kennedy, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The center, which opened in 2022, is responsible for deciphering, and defeating, surreptitious efforts to rig or tilt the American vote.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • That weekend, at the grocery store, Eliza hovered near the cosmetics wall and, almost without looking, tossed in mascara, concealer, lip gloss, and sped to the checkout, feeling furtive.
    Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • There’s always been something eerie about Seefeel’s music, in which dub and ambient flit like furtive ghosts.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspiratorial. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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