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The police caught the plotters of the bank heist.
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The goal of Gideon was to replace Maduro by installing Guaidó, whose name appears on a contract purportedly signed with the coup plotters.
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Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
After Trujillo’s son seized power instead of the U.S.-backed coup plotters, Washington forced him into exile and continued to meddle in Dominican elections—as well as those in Bolivia and Guyana—throughout the 1960s.
—Alexander B. Downes, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2025
Thompson is perfectly paired with Wilson, an actor who can go from disheveled wallflower to calculating plotter to deer-in-the-headlights comic fighter with a widening of the eye or twisting of the lips.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
The plotters received extensive aid from the U.S., where plans were also drawn up to provide military support should the upheaval devolve into a civil war.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
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Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
After Trujillo’s son seized power instead of the U.S.-backed coup plotters, Washington forced him into exile and continued to meddle in Dominican elections—as well as those in Bolivia and Guyana—throughout the 1960s.
—Alexander B. Downes, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2025
Thompson is perfectly paired with Wilson, an actor who can go from disheveled wallflower to calculating plotter to deer-in-the-headlights comic fighter with a widening of the eye or twisting of the lips.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
The plotters received extensive aid from the U.S., where plans were also drawn up to provide military support should the upheaval devolve into a civil war.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
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“Plotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plotter. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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