map out
phrasal verb
mapped out; mapping out; maps out
: to plan the details of (something, such as a program or one's future)
We mapped out a plan of action.
They mapped her campaign for governor all out.
She has her future all mapped out.
Examples of map out in a Sentence
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But the crime plan also maps out ways police rely on community partners to effectively carry out and continue the social services that are initially provided.
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Lee has employed Largo AI, the Swiss firm that offers financial and creative modelling for film and TV projects, to help map out the project’s potential.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
In suggesting a mysterious correspondence between a person’s inner world and the physical world, stories of St. Patrick’s Purgatory began to map out a landscape of the soul that mirrored the landscape of the earth, spanning the highest and holiest pinnacles and the most desolate abysses.
—Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
The table scans my body for 1.1 million 3D data points to map out my treatment.
—Annie Colbert, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
The group starts preparing in early January by promoting the program through digital advertising, buying candy, filling the eggs, mapping out routes and setting up the eggs in clients' yards.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
The centerpiece of the plan would be a firm commitment to, and timeline for, the creation of a Palestinian state—a process that President Joe Biden has already mapped out in remarks.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024
Engineers created a prototype by mapping out the tax code into a series of steps: The software has to know that a millionaire homeowner doesn’t need to see any of the questions that apply only to low-income renters, for example.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
Start by mapping out what a path to quitting looks like.
—Roxane Gay, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Lee has employed Largo AI, the Swiss firm that offers financial and creative modelling for film and TV projects, to help map out the project’s potential.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
In suggesting a mysterious correspondence between a person’s inner world and the physical world, stories of St. Patrick’s Purgatory began to map out a landscape of the soul that mirrored the landscape of the earth, spanning the highest and holiest pinnacles and the most desolate abysses.
—Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
The table scans my body for 1.1 million 3D data points to map out my treatment.
—Annie Colbert, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
The group starts preparing in early January by promoting the program through digital advertising, buying candy, filling the eggs, mapping out routes and setting up the eggs in clients' yards.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
The centerpiece of the plan would be a firm commitment to, and timeline for, the creation of a Palestinian state—a process that President Joe Biden has already mapped out in remarks.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024
Engineers created a prototype by mapping out the tax code into a series of steps: The software has to know that a millionaire homeowner doesn’t need to see any of the questions that apply only to low-income renters, for example.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
Start by mapping out what a path to quitting looks like.
—Roxane Gay, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
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“Map out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/map%20out. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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