How to Use plotter in a Sentence
plotter
noun- The police caught the plotters of the bank heist.
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Two years later, the prison-break plotters still haven’t been caught.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2019
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Crowds pour into the streets in support of the coup plotters.
—Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
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Bolsonaro is now one of thousands of coup plotters who have been brought to justice.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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But not all coup plotters are held accountable for their actions.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
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Hitler’s command was that the plotters should be killed like animals.
—Elisabeth Braw, Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2014
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Not all coup plotters are held accountable for their actions.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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Bolsonaro could soon join the ranks of thousands of coup plotters who have been brought to justice.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
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Even when convicted or exiled, coup plotters may be later freed.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
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Even when convicted or exiled, coup plotters may be later freed.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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The number one choice for food plotters in the South is warm-season annuals.
—Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
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What is the difference between an X-Y recorder and a plotter?
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025
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Some coup plotters and their co-conspirators are charged in a court and, if convicted, sent to prison.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
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Some coup plotters and their co-conspirators are charged in a court and, if convicted, sent to prison.
—Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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Adams is a fine writer and expert plotter, and to write Kane’s bad sentences takes a special skill.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
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Many of them face charges of terrorism or complicity with coup plotters.
—David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
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The plotters behind the coup had rolled tanks down the main streets, parking them at strategic locations all over the city.
—Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
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One of his college projects was working on a program to compose music, printing out the scores on a plotter.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 8 June 2022
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Big plans with multiple plotters who chat and can be monitored are easier to foil than low-tech ones by lone wolves.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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The senior, who'd attempted to escape via the main plotter's pickup truck was detained and faced a large fine.
—Chron.com Staff, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2020
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The Turkish government regards them as coup plotters and wants Athens to hand them over.
—Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2018
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The plotters are hanged and Mordechai's good deed is recorded in the Book of Chronicles.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 20 Feb. 2018
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Liz resented being portrayed in the media as a plotter in James’s coup-in-waiting.
—Gabriel Sherman, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
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The plotters also seized several of their rivals at court and executed them.
—Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Many of the kidnapping plotters attended the armed protest at the Michigan state capitol.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
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Some accomplices who turned in the game pieces were required to split the cash awarded with the plotters of the operation but were stuck with huge tax bills.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2020
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The government says the coup-plotters used Akinci air base as their headquarters.
—Burhan Ozbilici, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2017
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The best thing about dumb poisoners is that their victims usually survive — and the plotter usually gets caught.
—Deborah Blum, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2012
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And in nearly all of the attacks, the plotter planned to use firearms in the attack itself and 51% had planned to use explosives.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2021
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In any case, the security services have profited from the war and have little incentive to throw in their lot with coup plotters.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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