Example Sentences

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“I do know that for a sparkly moment I felt like maybe the universe had been conspiring for me,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Investigations in the mid-2010s showed that some of the biggest banks in the world had been conspiring to fix an important financial benchmark interest rate, the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2022

Chairmen and media executives had been conspiring to introduce the sport to modern capitalism.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

After he became president, Nixon—convinced that Johnson had been conspiring against him—spread reports alleging that Johnson had tapped his campaign plane.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2017

The fateful moment was at hand for which Nature had been conspiring all these ages.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon