plot the overthrow
Frequency: 6.58.4 per million words
to make a secret plan to overthrow someone or something
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- They were arrested for plotting the overthrow of the current administration.
- The conspirators met in secret to plot the overthrow of the king.
- Several generals are suspected of plotting the overthrow of the military junta.
- It took years of careful organization to plot the overthrow of the oppressive regime.
- Evidence emerged that a small group was plotting the overthrow of the local government.
- He spent most of his adult life plotting the overthrow of the system he despised.
- The radicals were caught plotting the overthrow of the established order.
- They managed to plot the overthrow of the tyrant without being detected by the secret police.
- Foreign powers were accused of plotting the overthrow of the legitimate president.
- The novel tells the story of students plotting the overthrow of a futuristic dictatorship.