conspiring

verb

present participle of conspire
1
as in plotting
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends conspired to replace the leader with someone more easily influenced

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2
as in cooperating
to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end foul weather and airline foul-ups seemed to be conspiring to ruin our vacation

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Recent Examples of conspiring Madriaga was convicted in September of conspiring to commit murder. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Federal prosecutors accused Maduro of conspiring with his wife to torture individuals who were held in Venezuelan prisons, according to a criminal indictment unsealed last week. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 Lemon was charged with conspiring to interfere with religious rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026 His captors threatened to kill him and accused him of conspiring against Maduro. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 The other, a Floridian named Ping Li, was sentenced to four years in November 2024 for conspiring to act as an agent of the Chinese government without notification to the Attorney General. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 6 Oct. 2026 In December 1988, Jim Bakker was indicted for fraud and conspiring to defraud churchgoers of $158 million. — Ronnie Glassberg, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 My interview with Altman had been arranged weeks earlier, just as the first revelations emerged about swarms of rogue AI agents conspiring to hack websites. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 Urker’s passing follows Blanchard’s 2016 conviction of conspiring with former boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspiring
  1. plotting
  2. cooperating
  3. collaborating
  4. uniting
Verb
  • Two teenage girls spent months plotting a mass shooting in Riverside County, officials say.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The distinction matters because operating an unmanned vessel requires more than plotting a route.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of plotting
Verb
  • Gonzalez can be seen on a video recorded by a witness cooperating with federal law enforcement explaining how her scheme worked.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • He was transferred out of the jail to a prison for cooperating witnesses.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of cooperating
Verb
  • Meta and Apple, meanwhile, are collaborating on a new Muse AI model that will run locally on Mac computers and will allow customers to use Muse Spark for coding, video analysis, and other agentic tasks.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • His comments came as the MIA Market in Rome kicked off with a panel on European producers collaborating in an EU-wide audiovisual policy amid a global business upended by consolidation and acquisitions of European companies by American rivals.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of collaborating
Verb
  • Holiday Fantasy celebrates this enduring legacy, uniting unmatched craftsmanship with the world-class service and personal care that have defined Neiman Marcus for over a century.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance helps fill that gap, uniting national associations to lobby policymakers and guide young composers through contracts and negotiations.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of uniting

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