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[bloo-print] / ˈbluˌprɪnt /


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The settlement doesn’t directly apply to YouTube, TikTok, or any other platform, but it does give litigants a blueprint for how to pressure those platforms using a similar playbook.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

Under Sheinbaum’s blueprint, broadcasters would be required to develop codes of ethics, name ombudsmen to represent viewers and listeners, and establish mechanisms to receive and evaluate complaints.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

But as depressing as that may be, “The End of Oak Street” could very well be a blueprint for a fresh era in popcorn movies.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

Joao Pedro also continued his fine pre-season form with a double as manager Xabi Alonso offered a glimpse of what could be his blueprint for the season.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Let’s now examine how blueprint copying and idea diffusion contributed to the spread of writing systems.

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

The government has agreed to hand over blueprints for British-made components for the Scalp missile, a French version of the UK's Storm Shadow cruise missile - allowing Ukraine to produce the weapon domestically.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

The UK is set to hand over blueprints for its British-French designed Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine – following a similar move from France – allowing Ukraine to produce the weapon domestically.

From BBC Aug. 24, 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

In her Danbury workspace, she is surrounded by blueprints for the next wave of store refreshes, some of which include downsizings.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Dad was in the living room, shuffling through blueprints for the granaries and mumbling to himself.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

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

Boss Engineer Luke Hobbs was also blueprinting the designs for a different type.

From Time Magazine Archive




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