If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.

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Tahawwur Rana, 52, was convicted in June 2011 of conspiracy to provide material support in the plot against the Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten newspaper and of providing material support to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Tayyiba-terror organization.

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And the fact of the matter is that the United States disrupted a conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in a plot that was directed by elements of the Iranian government.

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Estrada dismisses the allegations as "desperation on the part of the administration" and counters with his own conspiracy theory that he is the target of a murder plot called Operation Jupiter.

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Ironically, Sik, who is now accused of membership in the Ergenekon plot, was an editor at the leftist weekly magazine Notka that "broke" the conspiracy story.

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