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  • noun Plural form of cabal.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cabal.

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Examples

  • Pigou asked whether she had any factual proof about so-called cabals activities designed to discredit her, and what cause the internal liberation movement would have for doing so.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • When several admins quietly moved the search result from the direct to Barack version to the Obama disambig, name-calling started, with accusations of "cabals" and "collaborations."

    Kirsten Anderson: Wiki Wars 2008

  • Still, time was on the side of the Radicals, and from day to day they held what they called 'cabals' of the group formed by

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • _Invention_ exhausted itself in the creation of imaginary "cabals,"

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848

  • Invention has busied itself, to the exhaustion of its resources, in the creation of imaginary "cabals," "conspiracies," and "intrigues," among the Senators and Representatives of the South on duty in Washington at that time.

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848

  • But this won't happen, because the "cabals" controlling all three main parties want to be able to exercise "patronage" by "parachuting" their favoured candidates into safe seats, in

    Spectator Live 2009

  • Guess they decided it was better to get back to coven or the "christian" cabals before the holidays.

    Reid: Final Senate vote on health care bill Thursday morning 2009

  • So much for family values -- and so much for zombie-like cabals bending to their theocratic king-makers.

    Charles Redfern: The 'New Evangelicals' And The Near-Silent Roar Charles Redfern 2012

  • Personally, I think they called him that because the “Great Bullshitter” was probably rejected as a nickname by the Carlyle Group or at a meeting of the Bilderberg Group or one of those other cabals consisting of ten or so guys who have more wealth, power, and insider information than anyone else.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • Could this possibly mean the central banks, as setup by the western oligarchical banking cabals?

    Burt Blumert, RIP: A hero of the freedom movement « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

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