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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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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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Recent Examples of blueprints
Noun
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 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is handing Ukraine the blueprints to a valuable piece of his country’s military technology, thumbing his nose at a Kremlin that says the United Kingdom is now a party in the conflict. — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026 Forward-looking brands and retailers are drawing up blueprints for the next demographic frontier — the tiniest tots born between 2025 and 2039. — Faye Brookman, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026 Leeds and Brentford also offer blueprints for how to survive in the Premier League. — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Architects develop blueprints for order and try to mold the world to their designs, developing universal norms and anchoring security in multilateral institutions. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 Tehran purchased North Korean Scud-B and Scud-C missiles, using them as the blueprints for its own Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 ballistic missile programs. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Aug. 2026 That creates an opportunity for companies offering open models to potentially become indispensable to businesses by offering technological blueprints for their products. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026 Standouts include fragments of original mosaics, old blueprints, and digital reconstructions to show how the building has changed over the centuries. — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blueprints
  1. plans
  2. designs
  3. strategies
  4. plots
  5. programs
  6. charts
  7. projects
Noun
  • Once the moon enters Gemini, conversations will pick up speed as plans become more flexible.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • That includes its previous plans to commit more than $10 billion to autonomous vehicles in the coming years.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of plans
Verb
  • Samba has ties to the Brazilian Carnival tradition, so Anna picks out a floral fabric and designs a skirt with feather-style panels that will move around with the dancer.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Katie Becker, chief creative officer of Arc’teryx, said the brand designs products to perform for the long term.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of designs
Noun
  • Budgets and bureaucracy can move at a glacial pace, and internal politics often determine the weapons and strategies a country pursues in surprising ways.
    — Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The best strategies come from understanding business objectives, listening carefully and aligning people before making decisions.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of strategies
Verb
  • But the Green Book plots Ecobalyse points, PEF micropoints and Higg scores together despite their different units and methodologies.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • This chart from Henry Allen at Deutsche Bank plots the rate of inflation at the beginning of each historical period when the Fed began raising rates, against the number of basis points in that rate-raising cycle.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of plots
Noun
  • Current oil market pricing directly affects whether these multi-year redevelopment programs balance their expenses.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • There were multiple big-time programs that needed new coaches that cycle, from heavyweights like Texas and LSU to the Phil Knight–backed Oregon.
    — John Talty, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of programs
Verb
  • The documentary, produced and distributed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, charts Jeffrey Epstein‘s ascent, his trafficking network and his ultimate collapse.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The experiment uses data from Starling's cameras, as well as a catalog on the spacecraft that charts thousands of known satellites and space objects around it.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of charts
Noun
  • This would be an intense time of building, assembling art and art cars, and a lot of people just have not been able to get any work done on their projects.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This award recognized the engineering that helped concrete arch construction move past limits that had held back similar projects for decades.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of projects

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“Blueprints.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blueprints. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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