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She thinks a greedy banking cabal is plotting to introduce legislation that will enrich them.cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power -- especially political power
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...however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude. (source)cabals = small groups of people who plot in secret and exercise power -- especially political power
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They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal.† (source)cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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Langdon was not sure how powerful the Masons really were anymore, and he was not going to go down that road; perceptions of the modern Masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ....all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world.† (source)
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The general secretary squinted at Padorin from the other end of the table as he decided what to say, what would please the members of this cabal, these ten old, passionless men.† (source)
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The leader of a cabal in Beijing would know.† (source)
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I couldn't stop imagining being strapped to a table while a cabal of evil doctors removed my soul.† (source)cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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Simon is alerted: he is familiar with such ruses, he knows the cabals of mothers.† (source)cabals = small groups of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided—maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader.† (source)cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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With the passage of the assumption bill at the end of the month came cries of "intrigues, cabals, and combinations."† (source)cabals = small groups of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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Began to wonder if might be another revolutionary cabal?† (source)cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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Now, it never occurred to me to wish for a nearer inspection of these large insects, with their long black claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government intrigues.† (source)cabals = small groups of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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An artful cabal in the council could distract and weaken the whole system of administration.† (source)cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not part with; a tailor who never disappoints you; with the opera, the jockey-club, and other diversions, can you not amuse yourself?† (source)cabals = small groups of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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A cabal, perhaps.† (source)cabal = a small group of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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If the people made the appointments, they could not be coerced by cabals and intrigue.† (source)cabals = small groups of people who plot in secret and exercise power
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