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[bloo-print] / ˈbluˌprɪnt /


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Salt Lake City: Developed by Lester Wire, this innovation brought order to the chaos of the early automotive era, creating the blueprint for urban traffic management.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

With an accurate molecular blueprint available, researchers can now investigate how these compounds from rye pollen, which comes from a cereal crop widely grown for its grain, interact with the immune system.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

In this context, OpenAI’s own blueprint is not much more than a wish list dressed up as a policy proposal — a company telling regulators how it would like to be regulated.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

It has given Morocco a competitiveness and belief which has become the blueprint for other African and Arabic nations, and it gives them a different aura to four years ago.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Trump walked part of the property and inspected blueprints in view of reporters; he was then driven by the site where he wants to erect a marble arch.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 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

Reports claim that some workers did not bring mandatory tracking devices into the mines, and blueprints provided by the Liushenyu coal mine to authorities did not match the conditions at the mine, complicating rescue efforts.

From BBC May 25, 2026

U.S. and allied military planners, meanwhile, have spent months conferring on new blueprints for their combined force structures in Europe, under which the U.S. would reduce its nonnuclear deployments and Europeans would gradually fill gaps.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

So the hand- drawn plans are sent electronically to China, where they are converted into digital designs, which then are e-mailed back to the Japanese building firm, which turns them into manufacturing blueprints.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

Hank, get these plans blueprinted and assign an electronics group to the project.

From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

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

There are hand-carved stages, fitment stages, 3D scanning to build plastic molds for fitment, blueprinting to build complete 3D high-compression steel molds, and then prototypes are made and tested with our team riders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1962, the Monitor, which is never one to rush things, has been blueprinting a self-improvement program calculated to restore the paper's waning market.

From Time Magazine Archive

In return it has every intention of blueprinting the peace.

From Time Magazine Archive




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