counterplot
Example Sentences
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Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2012
Since the starlings were plainly not going to migrate from Radford of their own accord, the townsfolk and various wildlife experts hatched a counterplot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets.
From Time Magazine Archive
In two of three new television shows, the singers are almost buried under plot and counterplot, characterization and attempted comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it really were a part of the Government counterplot, as is very probable, it was not likely to be any of them.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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