Thesaurus results for PLOTTED

plotted

verb

past tense of plot

as in schemed

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company

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Recent Examples of plotted But a few months later, at her 18-month appointment, the standard graph that plotted a child’s weight against their age showed her weight slipping off the curve. — Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026 By the time the coffee shop building was going up at the end of the route in 1959, Fresco said, interstate freeways were already beginning to usurp Route 66’s role and the Santa Monica route of Interstate 10 had been plotted. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 The plane was designed to function at limited altitudes, and the pilot plotted an appropriate course. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Oct. 2026 The Justice Department claims Zhang was working as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government from June 2025 to September 2025, and plotted her surveillance mission with Beijing officials during a trip to China in June 2025. — Josh Boswell, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 Years ago, William had plotted to pollute the the ley lines — the source of all witches and warlocks’ magical powers — which was foiled by a Mary, Graves and their coven sister Tamora (Keegan Connor Tracy). — Mya Copeland, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026 Harbor Associates had plotted, in the wake of the pandemic, to convert the eight-story building into apartments, and secured a $17 million loan last year from a city affiliate to help finance the work. — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2026 The slaying, which federal prosecutors say was partly plotted in South Florida, plunged the country deeper into chaos. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 Kosowski expressed animus for Cozzi as the civil proceedings stretched over years and plotted his murder for months before Cozzi disappeared in March 2023, prosecutors say. — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

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The company discovered in July that rogue AI agents had schemed in secret to break out of the virtual sandbox created to contain them, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
His second was a 55-yarder on a fourth-and-7 play that was schemed on the sideline and then executed to perfection less than two minutes into the second half.

— Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

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With night set to fall, many in the area were without power due to outages planned by Southern California Edison in hopes of preventing power lines downed by the winds from sparking fires.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The band had planned to celebrate the release of its second album, Toxicity, with a free show in a Hollywood parking lot on September 3, 2001.

— Steve Appleford, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2026

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