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Definition

secretly plan together to do something — especially something illegal or harmful

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of events and circumstances: seemingly cooperate to achieve something

They conspired to overthrow the government

conspired = secretly planned together

The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall
Will you tell me now what persons conspired with you in the Devil's company?
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

conspired = cooperated

There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

conspiring = secretly working together to achieve something

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.
George Orwell -- 1984

conspire = make secret plans to do something

An hour later violent gusts started blowing down from the desert, and the wind and tidal rips conspired to carry him out to sea.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

conspired = worked together

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

conspires = seemingly cooperates (to achieve something)

...the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to...
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The hour—the calm beauty of the season—the occasion, all conspired to fill the spectators with solemn awe.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
She and Alex Cross had conspired to ruin his unique creation, his precious and very private art, his life as it had been.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Fate and Genet had conspired to kill my liver, but Shiva had a role in Genet's fate, and hence my fate.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
How could so many events have conspired together?
Stephen King -- Cujo
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against mine age?
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
It was part of being hopelessly poor that events conspired to keep you poor; if it wasn't one thing, it was another.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
At Bod's approach they looked up, startled, then fled into the undergrowth, as if they had been caught conspiring.
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
Jon climbed from the water, dried, dressed, and left them to conspire.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
Then they both laughed together like two conspiring children.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
—Delaford,—that place in which so much conspired to give her an interest; which she wished to be acquainted with, and yet desired to avoid.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
The concussions from the bombs, the drug lingering in my system, the loss of blood, the darkness .... all of it conspires to pin me down.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

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