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With cemeteries inaccessible during Sudan’s bloody civil war, residents of Khartoum resorted to burying their dead in just about any spare plot of land.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
It’s hard to imagine an audience resisting the temptation to have the enigma central to the play’s meaning clarified, given its prominence in the plot and the drama’s woolly elusiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The bonus structure, laid out in SpaceX's prospectus filed with US regulators Wednesday, reads less like a compensation agreement and more like a science fiction plot.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Boston Fed President Susan Collins, in an interview last week, lightly defended both the dot plot and the Fed’s current balance-sheet operations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
William Faulkner was excited to be working on a plot that starred men and women flying together to defeat the Nazis.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing plot
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 2
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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