counterplot
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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
Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power.
From Time Magazine Archive
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!
From Time Magazine Archive
Impossible Mission Force, the counter espionage team, stages a counterplot to stave off the nuclear destruction of a U.S. city.
From Time Magazine Archive
As nearly as I could make it out, there was a counterplot against the Furious.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the whole reign they were plotting and counterplotting, mining and undermining.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
Would all this trouble, the plotting and counterplotting, never end?
From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow
He resolved to learn the nature of the plots that were in existence, before he commenced counterplotting.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton
