plotting a course
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Enter Baltimore, San Francisco, Kansas City and Green Bay, which just spent a bye week resting and plotting a course to the conference championship games.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2020
I often think about what I would say if I had a chance to speak to that teenage Aaron while he was plotting a course to gain admission to an elite college.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2017
Geologist John Grotzinger is plotting a course for Curiosity.
From Nature • Aug. 15, 2012
Awhile back, I compared the challenges of assessing climate risks and appropriate responses to plotting a course for a sailboat in fog with imprecise instruments.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2011
We sink up to our calves in one of these, so avoid the others by checking the map and plotting a course around them.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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