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• n  a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
• n  a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
• v  engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

• But in contrast to the fictional Mulder's sympathetic crusades one geek's quest to combat a farcical cabal of sociopathic humans and the world-conquering extraterrestrials they .
• The rise of Hollywood theories--a cabal of James Bond pedophiles?--stemmed from the lack of physical evidence.
• Chanel had long since refused to join the cabal designers who tried to prevent style piracy.

• faction
• junto
• camarilla
• conspiracy
• conspire
• complot
• conjure
• machinate

News & Articles

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• Primal Scream’s More Light is the Feel-Good Album of the Summer
  With new albums from the likes of David Bowie, Daft Punk, Kanye West and Nine Inch Nails, 2013 might be called the year of the musical comeback. For whatever reason — luck? happenstance? a carefully-constructed plot of a previously-unknown cabal of musicians who schedule new releases? — several well-loved bands have released, or will be releasing, new material for the first time in years (and ...
  June 19, 2013 - Time Magazine

Quotes

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• Bert Fields in USA Today
  I am quite stunned at what I think is a super thin-skinned response (by Foxman),Fields said. "If a Jewish person is in a cabal, I don't think it implies that all Jews are conspiring against her. And to say that is silly."
• Graham Norton in MSNBC
  We do know the names of the individuals who are surrounding Mugabe at the moment, we know the names of the criminal cabal that is trying to keep him in power, and we will name those individuals and these will be part of the next stage of the... Gordon Brown http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE-PFSKfa_9Cue9zTZuv_tG4sb9AQ FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371283,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF2GWx3ij95kaF_fl9LFwxfXsaWbw Jun 25, 2008 14102 19028 cabala Madonna's my big get," says Norton, "but in the end, the Madonna I want is the Madonna from six years ago. Now she'sa working mother of two, everything's about cabala. I'm not sensing fun with a capital F."