Thesaurus results for BLUEPRINTS

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noun

plural of blueprint

as in plans

a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective an ambitious young man with a remarkably detailed blueprint for becoming a millionaire by the age of 25

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blueprints

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blueprint

as in designs

to work out the details of (something) in advance blueprinted the schedule of events for the festival right down to the last detail

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Noun

Repeatable blueprints are emerging, and athletes eyeing a second career as Hollywood moguls would be wise to focus their efforts in one of these directions. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2026 Holtec has coordinated engineering hubs across several countries to finalize the technical blueprints. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 Just remember that recipes are closer to blueprints than Lego instructions. — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2026 But without blueprints, safety rules or ownership, those solutions become a maze of duplicate apps, weak controls and fragile workflows. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 In addition to resources online and a network of experts to help farmers grow new crops and start small businesses, Transfarmation provides open-source blueprints for converting industrial pig, poultry and dairy barns. — Rachel Cramer, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026 For more than a century, college football has inspired the building of vast concrete-and-steel on-campus cathedrals — only for the names on the blueprints to become historical footnotes. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 Piecing together that chain of events is where the blueprints of the characters’ house and the logic maps came in. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026 For the first time, visitors can view color photographs from the museum's collection of the August Quarterly, see the church's original blueprints and read minutes from Sunday school programs. — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Verb

Recreating Rosebank’s Unique Facility IMD worked with Forsyth’s to create new stills, using archival still blueprints to build exact replicas of the original design. — Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Because the retail business is rapidly changing, action plans are expected to change.

— Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Le Pen's plans involve billions in new spending and lack credibility, according to Bloomberg Economics.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of plans

Verb

Hyperscalers are pouring billions into data centers, and Broadcom, which designs custom AI chips for them, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
While Charles Zana’s interiors projects and designs whisper poetic refinement, he’s drawn to edgy works of postmodern art.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of designs

Noun

For some young investors, that means money originally allocated to long-term strategies is being funneled to activities built around immediate outcomes.

— Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
Other strategies make distributions that may include all three types.

— Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of strategies

Noun

Unfortunately, the government then spends the equivalent of 24% of GDP on its various programs.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
In contrast, Asian students were less than 15% of the county’s student population but made up about half of the enrolees at the magnet programs.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of programs

Verb

Now those votes are being highlighted in campaign ads across the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from AdImpact, which charts media spending.

— Kevin Freking, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
The movie charts the evolution of OpenAI and dramatizes the tumultuous time when Altman was controversially fired and then rehired by the AI giant.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of charts

Noun

The Danish Dogma25 projects are financed in a collaboration between Zentropa, DR, and Nordisk Film Distribution, with the addition of Netflix in the Nordics, constituting the core financing necessary to realize all five projects.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Both oversee the creative direction and serve as executive producers on Victoria House projects.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

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