How to Use cabal in a Sentence

cabal

noun
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  • But each brand in this tiny cabal gets at most a C+ from Stand.
    — Alden Wicker, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Will like seek out like, as if drawn to a mystical cabal?
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • It’s not my shortcomings, but there’s a cabal against me.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The cabal finally gave up after it was proven that their charges were false.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And almost no one—except for the conservative cabal that bagged the whale—had heard of him.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Most of them were addicts mentored by King and hired by his CrossFit cabal.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • In these circumstances, even newsrooms not in thrall to the hard-right cabal would be hard-pressed to strike the right tone, to see the big picture, to earn the consumer’s trust.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • As writers we’re used to the DGA’s tire tracks, but this time the secretive cabal that runs that place, threw its own members under the bus.
    — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • Menendez has denied the charges and blamed a shadowy cabal trying to tarnish his name.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That is now believed by some to be connected to a cabal that allegedly rigged the 2020 election.
    — Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
  • He was accused of inventing the virus and of being part of a secret cabal with Bill Gates and George Soros to profit from vaccines.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Squid Game revealed a global cabal of rich people wearing masks who have been doing this for a while now.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • After a raucous sit-in at his office by outsiders, our small cabal of staffers was welcomed.
    — Ellen Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Donald Trump is battling a sinister cabal of deep-state Satanists who drink the blood of children.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Now, the ideas have found a fresh foothold in far-right groups like QAnon, which believes a devil-worshipping cabal of pedophiles threatens the nation’s children.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But the things that the Gottheimer cabal sought to achieve, such as blocking tax increases on the wealthy and on corporations, aren’t popular with the public.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • No cabal needed here: Fox News was less afraid of Murdoch or of Trump than its own audience and what might happen if the masses stopped watching.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Its premise says that a secret cabal of elites are supposedly helping people of color take the place of white people.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • Now a cabal that secretly provides money to get NFL players out of trouble wants to tackle Jake.
    — Sun Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Elected by a cabal of powerful Venetian families, the doge (at first, anyhow) ruled for life.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • This cabal of watch aficionados spans the globe, albeit in cyberspace, bringing history to the wrists of thousands with timepieces dating back to the days of Stalin.
    — CNN, 10 May 2021
  • On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022
  • On the campaign trail, Republican candidates avoid talking about the idea that a cabal of pedophiles is preying on children, a core tenet of QAnon.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • The QAnon conspiracy theory is based around the idea of a shadowy cabal going after Trump.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The comic then opened up its world, focusing on the monster-killing cabal and its sinister politics.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Unfortunately, Sam makes a mess of her own by killing the son of a rival cabal, leaving its leader hellbent on revenge.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Inevitably, Broeksmit’s death has become fodder for a cottage industry of conspiracists, striving to see in the death of a one-time whistleblower the work of some evil cabal.
    — Gian M. Volpicelli, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Needless to say, the usual cabal of naysayers and spoilsports have challenged the authenticity of some of the items, a development that has not gone down well with Collins.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • The book spans decades of climatic unraveling to chronicle the rise of the Children of Kali, a cabal that kills thousands of innocent people on Crash Day, sometime in the 2030s, by flying drones into the engines of dozens of commercial airliners.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Gone is the shadowy, easily influenced cabal of voters known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024

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