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blueprint

[bloo-print] / ˈbluˌprɪnt /


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"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

The city's architects were praised for "turning one of Europe's most intensively used urban coastlines into a global blueprint for climate adaptation".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Still, in broad terms, the safety advocates hoped the successes with seat belts and drunk driving would provide a blueprint for addressing cell phone distraction.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

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

The UK has handed secret blueprints to Ukraine that will allow the country to build its own long-range cruise missiles.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

That’s warp speed compared with how long it takes to turn nuclear-reactor blueprints into power plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

He waved a thick roll of blueprints around.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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 return it has every intention of blueprinting the peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are blueprinting airplane factories and plush government offices.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few, like Douglas and Lockheed, have talked of blueprinting a model.

From Time Magazine Archive




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