Thesaurus results for CHARTS

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noun

plural of chart

as in maps

an illustration of certain features of a geographical area a chart of that section of the coastline will show any possible hazards

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verb

present tense third-person singular of chart

as in describes

to give an oral or written account of in some detail the book charts the years between the two World Wars

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as in plans

to work out the details of (something) in advance charted the entire campaign for governor before she even agreed to run

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Noun

Getty Images for Coachella Last week, Karol G returned to the Billboard charts with her new album, No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto, her sixth full-length. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon, the film stars Remi Goulet as the F1 car legend and charts his ascent to the dizzying heights of elite car racing, well before Villeneuve’s tragic death at Zolder in 1982. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026 But his energy level at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta Thursday night as part of the band’s Power Up tour was off the charts. — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026 As Honest Woman is released nearly a decade after her debut, country music is seeing a wave of women country artists dominating the charts, including Ella Langley, Megan Moroney and Stella Lefty. — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2026 No punk single made the year’s UK top 50; Abba, Rod Stewart and Demis Roussos dominated the album charts. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026 Both films earned roughly $9 million in their sophomore outings (with each suffering a 60% decline from their respective debuts), so the final order on box office charts won’t be confirmed until Monday. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Aug. 2026

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 The film, which is playing Out of Competition on the Lido, charts the brutality of Spanish friar Padre Enciso over the population in the 17th century. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026 The Bullpen is back in action as all-new Editor-in-Chief Stephen Wacker charts the thrilling future of the Marvel Universe for the first time…and probably gets in trouble for saying too much! — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Aug. 2026 Seen together, the trilogy charts both a personal coming-of-age and a generational coming-to-grips with aging that, even when compared against similar serialized documentary experiments like Michael Apted’s 7 Up installments, feels wholly unique. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2026 The series charts Combs’ rise and fall, including his founding of Big Boy Records in the 90s, which had a fraught rivalry with the label that signed Shakur, Death Row Records. — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 Olivia Dean Scores Multiple Top Three Debuts Growth opens in third place on both the Official Albums Sales and Official Physical Albums charts. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The narrative starts immediately after the encounter and charts her harrowing fight to get past it, physically and mentally, putting any of my own struggles into a sobering perspective. — The Know, Denver Post, 9 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The research team mapped where the 44,000 unsheltered people lived and superimposed those over maps of the theoretcial one-mile radius security zones.

— James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
How world maps compare Maps project a three-dimensional sphere onto a two-dimensional flat space.

— Jewel Bright, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026

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Human Intelligence As Spec The Knowing markets itself as 100% human intelligence, which Thomas describes as a business proposition rather than a moral one.

— Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Modern interpreters have read his 10 heads as signifying his vast knowledge of 10 sacred texts, or alternately his 10 ethical failings, but the Ramayana account describes him as 10-headed from birth.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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Verb

And regardless of whether General Motors plans on selling these to a wider audience or just a select few—or even just one person like Porsche did for Roger Penske—the task of dumbing down one of the world’s most advanced race cars is no small feat.

— Jerry Perez, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026
The office plans to be on site Thursday to talk with residents.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of plans

Verb

The quotation should identify who designs the hairline, administers local anesthesia, performs recipient incisions and supervises graft placement.

— Malana VanTyler, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
David helped with a connection with Garner Holt Productions, which designs animated figures, show systems and special effects for major theme parks worldwide.

— Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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Verb

If the panel reports it’s still deadlocked later in deliberations, the prosecution and the defense would likely make arguments to Sullivan about whether the jurors should keep trying.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
This may have led to delays in correctly identifying clusters of illness as Ebola, as AP reports that experts believe the virus may have been spreading undetected as early as February.

— Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026

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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

Verb

The four-part series chronicles the efforts of young Julien Sorel (Victor Belmondo) to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing while entangled in a web of passion and power.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
James, a sensitive diviner of both anxieties, chronicles how the inhospitality of the social world sends gay men into hiding.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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