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"text": "Roscommon\nThe press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age."
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"text": "Bishop Hall\nAngry clouds conspire your overthrow."
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "knuć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uknuć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"word": "conspirar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamyšljátʹ",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "замышля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sgovárivatʹsja",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сгова́риваться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sgovorítʹsja",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "сговори́ться"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zmovljátysja",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "змовля́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zmóvytysja",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "змо́витися"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"word": "âm mưu"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"word": "mưu hại"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to secretly plot",
"word": "cynllwynio"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to try to make things go a certain way",
"word": "chung sức"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to try to make things go a certain way",
"word": "hiệp lực"
}
],
"word": "conspire"
}
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