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[plot] / plΙ’t /








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Court records show informants helped foil the plot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

"They thought I was just losing the plot and why would I not go get a normal job with stability," she added.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Along with co-op facilities, he also purchased a plot of land in Delano to house the union’s first headquarters and learned how to handle media amid Chávez’s historic fasts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Cregger decided it was more important to match the vibe of playing "Resident Evil" than using the characters or plot from the series.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Two other captured conspirators, Michael O’Laughlen and Sam Arnold, had already confessed everything they knew about the plot.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Forced into hiding under police protection—the British security services identified at least six assassination plots against him—Mr. Rushdie decided years later to live a normal life, and so he did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Take a look at the above chart, which plots the correlation between earnings-growth rates and the S&P 500’s return.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Security Service, MI5, has also had its own failures, amid numerous undoubted successes, in foiling terrorist plots.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

He envisions young workers moving to Newberry Springs from the city to raise families on generous plots of land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Or maybe the whole confession had been orchestrated by Hale—another one of his plots within a plot.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Their unlikely enemy, who they believe plotted a surreptitious attack, was a museum built to honour a pioneering, nature-loving Korean artist.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

This seasonal tendency is plotted in the chart above.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Women are often expected to write quiet, intricate family dramas, but Chloe went ahead and wrote an unbelievably plotted science fiction novel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

In 2024, German political figures reacted angrily to a CNN report that Russia had plotted to kill the head of Germany's biggest arms company Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Or worse—she’s been planning this getaway for months, and the postcards were part of her carefully plotted exit strategy.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

It was organised by Thomas - seemingly after weeks of plotting over the summer - who comes from Hayling Island near Portsmouth.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Now, in early 1943, the 33-year-old Flynn — the country’s biggest movie star — was plotting his flight from the American justice system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

And yet, the film fails to utilize either to its advantage, wasting great talent and a halfway-decent premise on mind-numbing dialogue, repetitive plotting and dour lighting.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

But Waldron was already plotting where a new bathroom would go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

She conferred with Ted Skopinski, consulted her textbooks, and did her own plotting.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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