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intriguer

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Definition of intriguer

as in conspirator

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Both have pleaded not guilty in a criminal case first brought six years ago against them and numerous alleged co-conspirators.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Both have pleaded not guilty in the criminal case first brought years ago against them and numerous alleged co-conspirators.

— Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of conspirator

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Editor’s pick More picks How a bootlegging schemer launched the tiki movement from his tiny Hollywood bar.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Matt Damon plays Odysseus as a gruff, practical tactician, rather than an energetically inventive and morally dubious schemer.

— Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of schemer

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Then in the 1980s, vinyl plotters came on the market, and people started using those machines to cut out letters for signs.

— Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026
The plotters behind the coup had rolled tanks down the main streets, parking them at strategic locations all over the city.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

Definition of plotter

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Abraham and Szor, both Israeli filmmakers, have been denounced as traitors in Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has threatened to revoke their citizenship.

— Justin Chang, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
Over in Norway, drama series Rinnan, about the infamous Norwegian traitor and Gestapo agent Henry Rinnan, is also set to launch.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of traitor

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Dillman and his coconspirator used the funds to pay themselves and to make risky and speculative investments in other cryptocurrency ventures, authorities said, citing other evidence presented at the trial.

— Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Others were lured by his girlfriend and coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, or by other young girls like themselves, who were paid by Epstein to recruit them.

— Abby Ellin, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026

Definition of coconspirator

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Worth putting a pin in Catherine’s reaction to Lamb’s callous reference to Charles Partner, the late First Desk chief and turncoat who employed Catherine as his personal assistant.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026

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