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[plot] / plΙ’t /








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The plot points that are key in Stephen King’s novel and its subsequent adaptations remain.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Detectives would later be able to plot his journey via his Apple watch, which monitored his speed, location and heart rate.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Yet the Times also uncovered other evidence that the recruitment plot was real, including text exchanges going back months.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

What grounds that preposterous plot is that the film stars Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, award-winning actors who are both known to have impeccable comedic timing and to not take themselves too seriously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

To his-surprise, Taran found himself yearning to work with Coll in his own vegetable plot.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Parts of Indonesia also previously allowed smallholders to use fire to clear plots of land, though this year the government has cracked down on that practice too.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the adumbrated cityscapes and sunlit garden plots, he might remix an inherited gesture, shade or style of line with hazy neighborhood memories of Bursch Elementary or Burke Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

A Greenpeace report published this month identified businesses based in Singapore and Malaysia which are linked to plots of land in Indonesia where wildfires are burning.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The chart plots the countries where their economic forecasts were revised upwards from January with those that were revised downwards.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

For them it was a tool to reckon the passage of the days and to maintain plots of land.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

So the company plotted an ambitious pivot: It would rip up the rulebook and switch to selling fewer cars at a much higher price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The apartment served as a base camp after he released his memoir, “I Was Wrong,” and plotted a national book tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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 ● 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 ● Aug. 21, 2026

During my teens, as I came to this realization, I veered gradually from the plotted course, and then sharply.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

TeamLab, the Japan-born, tech-heavy immersive art collective, is plotting its first permanent U.S. exhibition in Anaheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Police interrogated him, raided his home and office before accusing him of plotting against the constitutional order.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Boys in the alleyway, fondling marbles in their chilblained fingers or plotting Hurley Burley: these would remain foreign to him,” writes Li.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

At the moment, groundbreaking AI bots—when they aren’t actively plotting civilization’s demise—are composing elaborate symphonies and solving knotty, generations-old math problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

I am so focused on plotting out this path that I do not immediately notice the change in the condition of the wind.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga


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