cabal
IPA: kʌbˈɑɫ
noun
- A secret political clique or faction.
- (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
- A secret plot.
- An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.
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Examples of "cabal" in Sentences
- The number of Republicans who support this man and his cabal is astonishing, but nothing will change the minds of that percentage.
- They live in a world of paranoid fantasies, where some secret cabal is supposedly trying to set up a world government to take away their freedoms.
- It wouldn't hurt if DC remotely attempted to find new writers outside of their main cabal (Morrison, Johns, Rucka, Robinson, Tomasi, Gates, Simone).
- And some brilliantly colourful facts too - like where the word 'cabal' comes from, what the war of Jenkins' ear was and who the first 'commoner queen' was.
- Dr. Ian Swayze who was and still is working at CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto had in interesting patient; paranoid schizophrenic Scott Jeffrey Schultzman aka "Professor Scott Starson" who always protested being medicated as he claimed that medication was slowing his thought process and "consilium", that is what you call cabal of three doctors, decided to use these protests in order to throw a monkey wrench into Canadian legal system and do it quick enough so the issue of informed consent could be done away with by the time they face their own trial.
- Dr. Ian Swayze who was and still is working at CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto had in interesting patient; paranoid schizophrenic Scott Jeffrey Schultzman aka "Professor Scott Starson" who always protested being medicated as he claimed that medication was slowing his thought process and "consilium", that is what you call cabal of three doctors, decided to use these protests in order to throw a monkey wrench into Canadian legal system and do it quick enough so the issue of informed consent could be done away with by the courts before they face their own trial.
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