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Root will meet incoming coach Stephen Fleming in the coming days to plot the route forward.
From BBC β Sep. 12, 2026
The plot is simultaneously ingenious, preposterous and, in its ultimate phantasmagorical effect, not unlike Mr. Holland’s account of the reality Mr. Boyne so wantonly subverts.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 11, 2026
The CIA and FBI, the report concluded, failed to properly assess intelligence and share information with each other and take sufficient steps to disrupt the plot.
From BBC β Sep. 10, 2026
Scenes designed to advance the plot feel more contrived than ones in which characters just share thoughts and feelings, but there are plenty of those.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 10, 2026
Booth claimed the most notorious part in the plot for himself.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
The Security Service, MI5, has also had its own failures, amid numerous undoubted successes, in foiling terrorist plots.
From BBC β Sep. 10, 2026
He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2026
Berlin, a key backer of Ukraine, is also on high alert for sabotage plots linked to Russia.
From Barron's β Sep. 1, 2026
The chart below plots this mean-reverting tendency of earnings growth rates.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 29, 2026
The Osage, meanwhile, had taken their own steps to protect themselves against future plots, persuading Congress to pass a new law.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Of the nine indicators plotted in the above chart, the one with the best statistical track record is the average U.S. household’s equity allocation.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 24, 2026
In 2024, German political figures reacted angrily to a CNN report that Russia had plotted to kill the head of Germany's biggest arms company Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger.
From BBC β Aug. 21, 2026
What redeems this creakily plotted work is the showcase it provides for a company of savvy older actresses.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 28, 2026
The startup—last valued at $5.5 billion in 2024 in a secondary tender offer led by General Atlantic and Stripes—has plotted out a cluster of new stores in China.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 23, 2026
Or worse—she’s been planning this getaway for months, and the postcards were part of her carefully plotted exit strategy.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Now, in early 1943, the 33-year-old Flynn — the country’s biggest movie star — was plotting his flight from the American justice system.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2026
And yet, the film fails to utilize either to its advantage, wasting great talent and a halfway-decent premise on mind-numbing dialogue, repetitive plotting and dour lighting.
From Salon β Sep. 2, 2026
A Frenchman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mali for plotting an alleged coup in the West African country has now been granted a presidential pardon, it was announced on Thursday.
From BBC β Aug. 13, 2026
Nonfarm payrolls data for July will be watched especially closely for clues to the Federal Reserve’s rate plotting path, as Chairman Kevin Warsh pivots the Fed away from providing forward guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 7, 2026
They did not accuse him of plotting against the United States.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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