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a secret agreement or plot — especially to do something illegal or harmful
- Perhaps the rumors of vast underground conspiracies were true after all — perhaps the Brotherhood really existed!p. 17.8
- Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even — so it was occasionally rumored — in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.p. 12.3
- It appeared that they had engaged in fresh conspiracies from the very moment of their release.p. 77.8
- The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it.p. 159.3
- He went on, conscious that what he was saying must sound both feeble and pretentious: 'We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it.p. 170.2
- And the conspiracy — the organization?p. 171.6
There are no more uses of "conspiracy" in 1984 by Orwell.
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