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blueprint

[bloo-print] / ˈbluˌprɪnt /


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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

Zidar: Everywhere millionaires have created the blueprint for how to get rich in America today.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The WTO didn’t offer a blueprint for reshaping the world trade system to reduce tensions and prevent fragmentation, leaving those questions to its members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It captured the hopes and dreams of the people and acted as a blueprint for the liberation struggle and the future of the nation.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Despite AI companies’ protests, it appears that AI’s blueprints are about as hard to contain as those from our previous industrial revolutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Instead of manufacturing the processors themselves, Arm designs the blueprints and licenses its intellectual property to tech companies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Bits of blueprints and novels and stationery, folded and cut and shaped into a flock of striped tents, all tied together with more string in black and white and red.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Since 1962, the Monitor, which is never one to rush things, has been blueprinting a self-improvement program calculated to restore the paper's waning market.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are blueprinting airplane factories and plush government offices.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens.

From Time Magazine Archive




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