Preposition: of

• silence: Yet there still seems to be a conspiracy of official silence.

Converse of object

• uncover: Iraqi security forces uncovered the conspiracy and arrested the participants.

• expose: Mammoth conspiracy exposed, July 1978 / Texaco Monthly Paid Branch, Oilfields Workers ' Trade Union.

• suspect: Conservatives disparaged the President's commitment to missile defense, suspecting an elaborate conspiracy to deny them the prize they seek.

• organize: There is no evidence of an organized conspiracy against Labor by the intelligence agencies.

• suggest: This is not to suggest a conspiracy of silence.

Adjective modifier

• sinister: Here there is no shadowy Mr Big playing the puppet master, no sinister criminal conspiracy, serial killers or drug-crazed hitmen.

• seditious: Fifty-nine men, including Feargus O'Connor and the National Executive of the National Charter Association were charged with seditious conspiracy.

• communist: The Freedom Riders, the Bomb, the Communist conspiracy?

Modifies a noun

• theorist: Inside every conspiracy theorist is an optimist, never more than three steps from utopia.

• theory: Nothing like an even bigger conspiracy theory, is there?

• thriller: In fact police activity is almost nonexistent in this episode of Paul Abbott's superior conspiracy thriller.

• nut: Supports what we sinister conspiracy theorist nuts have been saying - it's all about the register, stupid.

• charge: Twelve young Asians faced conspiracy charges for making gasoline bombs to use against racists.

• count: The rules as to duplicity apply equally to conspiracy counts.

Noun used with modifier

• wing: There may well be a right wing conspiracy against Clinton.

• government: Is there a government conspiracy to keep such encounters secret?