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Recent Examples of conspiratorial
Most Americans today trust how votes are counted in their own jurisdiction but grow increasingly conspiratorial when asked how votes are counted in further-off or more politically opposed corners of the country.
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The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024
Exactly how Paul Kevin Curtis ended up being framed for a presidential assassination attempt is more complex and conspiratorial than news reports could capture at the time.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Biden is reported to be considering pre-emptive pardons for citizens who are not credibly suspected of having committed any crimes and have done nothing wrong — other than in the twisted, conspiratorial theories of Trump and his MAGA followers.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
Irregular medicine offered another option, with conspiratorial undertones: There was a gentler cure that conventional doctors weren’t telling you about.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024
Exactly how Paul Kevin Curtis ended up being framed for a presidential assassination attempt is more complex and conspiratorial than news reports could capture at the time.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Biden is reported to be considering pre-emptive pardons for citizens who are not credibly suspected of having committed any crimes and have done nothing wrong — other than in the twisted, conspiratorial theories of Trump and his MAGA followers.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
Irregular medicine offered another option, with conspiratorial undertones: There was a gentler cure that conventional doctors weren’t telling you about.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiratorial
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The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying its clandestine satellites to orbit.Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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For many Black southerners, the end of Jim Crow marked the beginning of covert discrimination—systems that, on their surface, signaled progress but kept discriminatory power dynamics in place.Essence, Essence, 13 Jan. 2025
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Read: What Europe fears The Eagle S, however, apparently had a covert military purpose as well: Investigators discovered that the vessel was crammed full of advanced surveillance equipment, which used so much power that the ship suffered from periodic blackouts.Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
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However, when intentions are left surreptitious, fashion can be used as a political weapon.Chloe Iris Kennedy, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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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 Jan. 2025.
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