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Recent Examples of counterplot
Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
There’s something comforting about the normalcy of plot and counterplot, action and intrigue.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Noun
Bit by bit, the castle at Elsinore (broodingly rendered by scenic designer Lee Savage) turns into a stage for life-and-death plots and counterplots.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
There’s something comforting about the normalcy of plot and counterplot, action and intrigue.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterplot
Noun
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Tonight's game provides plenty of intrigue, as two of the NFC's top contenders will face off.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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For Vuelta, the Vatican intrigue carries strategic weight.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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According to the outlets, prosecutors told jurors that Urick and Tara, then 17, plotted her grandmother's murder for several weeks.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Gray and Rockett checked the bus schedule on Gray’s phone and began plotting their course.—
Dan Horn,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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There was even a final machination aimed at rattling the Venezuelan president about the pilot’s true loyalties.—
Joshua Goodman,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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The article took a more skeptical look at Springsteen’s rise, and the corporate machinations behind it.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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As part of a Home Instead ad campaign, the actor reprised his role as the movie's scheming protagonist, now all grown up.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Nov. 2025
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No Warriors were involved, but Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups — as well as Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier — was arrested and charged with scheming to rig underground poker games.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The story then unfolded through the subterfuge of the princess and the care of Morton.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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Unlike the confrontational drudgery of couples therapy — and aiming to avoid the confrontational finality of divorce — this approach relies on subterfuge.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In Newark, Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh face charges of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, The Associated Press reported.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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All three suspects, including Nasser, were charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and having firearms that would be used to commit an act of terrorism on behalf of ISIS.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Police arrested Wimunc on suspicion of his wife's murder, charging him with first-degree murder, second-degree arson and conspiracy to commit second-degree arson.—
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
7 Nov. 2025
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From the off, Deza identifies any number of gaps and inconsistencies in the prosecution’s case against her client, and even evidence of a systemic conspiracy against her.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The mystery is less about who’s involved in the game afoot, as alert audiences piecing together context clues will be immediately aware of those nefarious parties upon their introductions, and is more about the puzzling lengths the filmmakers go to in planting contrived red herrings.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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Even if parts of the individual storylines still come across as contrived or at least dramatically convenient, the ending reminds and underlines that these things, and things far worse, happened in Israel on October 7, 2023.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Counterplot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplot. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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