How to Use conspiracy theorist in a Sentence

conspiracy theorist

noun
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  • When one of them, a conspiracy theorist, fires a gun at a cell tower, the police spring into action and violence ensues.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • While a handful of outraged conspiracy theorists are pitching the ruling as the criminalization of free speech, these views are getting very little traction.
    — Emma Woollacott, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed in the U.K. against a conspiracy theorist.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That brings us back to the conspiracy theorists and their gripe about spotting boot prints on the moon.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024
  • But the tweets that have gone viral, thanks in large part to a far-right conspiracy theorist, aren’t hers.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But that wasn't enough for the conspiracy theorists out there.
    — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 23 July 2024
  • At least, that's what all the conspiracy theorists on the internet will tell you.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
  • What is Austin’s role as a nexus for conspiracy theorists?
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • Not to go all Taylor Swift conspiracy theorist on you, but there are some signs — and celeb gossip reports — that point to Swift spending some time in the desert.
    — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Alex Jones, the extreme far-right talk-show host and conspiracy theorist, joined the social network.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • This, in turn, is why Swift often finds herself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theorists and AI deepfake makers.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In the movie, the cosmic conspiracy theorists are proved right: the year 2012 ends not with a whimper but with a bang, or really a sequence of cataclysmic bangs all over the globe.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Siegel's segment, Stowaway, tells the story of a young conspiracy theorist who heads to the Mojave Desert to document sightings of lights in the sky.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Around the time of the 2016 election, YouTube became known as a home to the rising alt-right and to massively popular conspiracy theorists.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the meantime, conspiracy theorists just moved on to other claims.
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But conspiracy theorists have baselessly added the names of other celebrities to the list.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the bizarro world of the conspiracy theorist, the 15-minute city was reimagined as a plan by shadowy elites to force us all to stay in our neighborhoods, depriving us of our freedom of movement.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • That’s the inevitable outcome when a crackpot conspiracy theorist who spouts nothing but lies is given a platform like the one Kennedy now has.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • He’s felt the contempt of people who see him as a fanatic, a conspiracy theorist.
    — Tim Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In online forums, conspiracy theorists have claimed it was used as a sound bath by Tartars.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2023
  • There are some jokes about Stanley Kubrick, who many conspiracy theorists believe shot the moon landing.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
  • As much as the internet loves a feud, celebrity stylist Law Roach is not going to let conspiracy theorists get between him and Zendaya.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Election conspiracy theorists urged him to use the Department of Justice to seize voting machines to highlight the search for fraud.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but…Gracie Abrams and her whole goth glam look is giving strong Reputation vibes, no?
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, Haldeman was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist who blamed much of what bothered him about the world on Jewish financiers.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Last month, Ye praised Hitler in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
    — Rod McGuirk, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The man, who Wilson thought was a grocery store employee, turns out to be a conspiracy theorist, or, at the very least, a person who’s convinced the Mandela Effect is proof of the multiverse.
    — Rayna Rossitto, Vulture, 13 June 2023
  • The conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars was banned from Twitter back in 2018 for abusive behavior.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists have since then peddled this idea.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Ye has taken his string of antisemitic comments to the next level by going on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' show and praising Adolf Hitler.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 Dec. 2022

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