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blueprint

[bloo-print] / ˈbluˌprɪnt /


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"They didn't buy this thing for no reason. They have got the blueprint," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Our work provides a blueprint for designing better materials that can bring down the cost of green hydrogen," said Stylianou, who directs OSU's Materials Discovery Laboratory, known as the MaD Lab.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

The chefs at the festival weren’t offering a single blueprint for how to accomplish that.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Basically, punk is like a blueprint for people to find their own individuality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Mum was looking stonier and stonier as the rockery in the garden and the rockery in her blueprint got more and more different.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The group has been drawing up blueprints for a Cuban stock exchange and an investment summit in Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Rayner also said she wanted was "really clear-eyed on where we were going" with the plans, after Burnham had asked her to look again at the blueprints, which were announced by her predecessor Steve Reed.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The original model of the Integratron was among the collection, along with blueprints, photographs, books and recordings of Van Tassel channeling what he described as “beings from beyond.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Instead of manufacturing the processors themselves, Arm designs the blueprints and licenses its intellectual property to tech companies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Marco’s eyes travel over the papers and blueprints strewn on the floor.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The National Guard's Special Immediate Reaction Force blueprinted the operation for the assault on Sunday with both land and air maneuvers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

“Marquee Moon” is both architectonic and disorienting, blueprinted and unpredictable.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

Many of the songs we do are blueprinted on both sides of the Atlantic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

It’s not merely the stratospheric box-office expectations, but also the need – under the cinematic-universe model blueprinted by Marvel – for each film to fit the aesthetic and actors into a larger whole.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2017

Presumably it was not thought out and blueprinted in advance but worked out by trial and error, episode by episode, step by step—perhaps, also, leap by leap.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing

Herschel called the technique cyanotyping, but it is better known today as blueprinting.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 29, 2021

For the coalition of local officials, businesses and nonprofits leading the way, the blueprinting of the city presents an intensely varied task.

From Forbes ● May 19, 2015

In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said he of the blueprinting: "Somehow we did in three weeks what nobody can do in less than four months."

From Time Magazine Archive

That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive.

From Time Magazine Archive




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