conspiracy theorist
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- noun
- /kənˈspɪrəsi ˈθɪərɪst/
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teórico de la conspiración
- The documentary focused on a conspiracy theorist who claims that major world events are planned out in advance.
- conspiracy theorists believe
- conspiracy theorists claim
- 9/11 conspiracy theorists
Like you know me, I'm a conspiracy theorist, I'm a realist, right?
- Like you know me, I'm a conspiracy theorist, I'm a realist, right?
- To explain this, but the conspiracy theorist in me noticed three things.
- Now this is where I go full conspiracy theorists and say I don't think he killed himself.
- I am a conspiracy theorist or or factualist as you have it.
- I'm like, yeah, I might be on the conspiracy theorist side with this one.
- But my kids were very, very smart and well informed and not a conspiracy theorist like me, right?
- David Icke is probably one of the world's most renowned conspiracy theorists.
- David Ike is probably one of the world's most renowned conspiracy theorists.
- Should you directly engage a conspiracy theorist on the hope or expectation that you will change their mind?
- All of that looks like the Orwellian confirmation of the worst fears of conspiracy theorists, right?
- I I'm not some conspiracy theorist, but yes, modern persuasive communicators learn specific language patterns.
- Well, listen, I, I don't, I said to you producer on the way up, yet I said I'd, I don't, I'd like, don't like to think of myself as a conspiracy theorist.
- No, I'm sure conspiracy theorists will have a field day.
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That's my favourite thing about conspiracy theorists.
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Oh, conspiracy theorists of the world, unite.
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And so I actually find conspiracy theorists to be funny.
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What do the conspiracy theorists believe?
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Who are you calling a conspiracy theorist?
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The United States is the home of the conspiracy theorist.
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No, I'm sure conspiracy theorists will have a field day.
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Should you directly engage a conspiracy theorist on the hope or expectation that you will change their mind?
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Of course I've been called a conspiracy theorist.
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For years, conspiracy theorists had suspected the US government was lying about UFOs, covering up the truth about an extraterrestrial reality.
Synonyms
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A person who believes or spreads ideas that official stories about events are false
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A person who believes hidden groups control events and tells others
A person who believes secret groups control events without proof
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'conspiracy' (secret plots) + 'theorist' (someone who forms or supports theories) yields an obvious meaning of a person who believes in conspiracy theories. This head-modifier noun pattern is regular in English and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
The term conspiracy theorist comes from a simple picture: conspiracy means a secret plan and a theorist is someone who makes ideas to explain events. So a conspiracy theorist is someone who 'believes in secret plots' behind events, which is why we use the phrase for people who think hidden groups control what happens.