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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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Sharpening skills under Jones’ mentorship in Albuquerque only adds to the intrigue surrounding the start of his career.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Still, while numbers and category domination make for splashy headlines, the real intrigue lies in how nominees carefully curate the episodes meant to win over Emmy voters.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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That’s thanks in part to the years of federal science data that have been collected and fed into computer models that assist the center’s hurricane specialists in plotting forecasts.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
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Loomer, a conservative influencer, has accused Kennedy of plotting another run.—
Will McDuffie,
ABC News,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The scramble to try to get back into the game, started by Freeman’s exit, created enough lineup machinations that Mookie Betts wound up in right field for the first time all season, fielding a fly ball to start the eighth inning.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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Big Tech machinations come right to the fore of Severance and its Lumon headquarters.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Aug. 2025
Verb
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There are, of course, bagpipes spouting off, clan skirmishes, muddy games and critter hunts, and kilts and scheming aplenty.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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Jonathan Joss Jonathan Joss, the Native American actor who lent his voice to the esteemed, and also partly scheming John Redcorn across King of the Hill's original run, died in June 2025.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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That phonetic play alone already signals one of the project’s theoretical subterfuges: that of exploring the most advanced conditions of the subject’s annihilation as a foundational precondition for artistic authority.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
Verb
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In the fourth indictment, Lewis-Martin allegedly conspired to obtain approval for a residential renovation project in exchange for thousands of dollars of catering for events at Gracie Mansion and City Hall.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
21 Aug. 2025
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The plaintiffs argue that 32 elite US colleges and universities conspired to raise the cost of attendance through binding early decision admissions, making a college education far more accessible to those who can pay more.—
Mary Frances Ruskell,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Vazquez previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic firearms and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.—
Silas Morgan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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Federal charges against Cantrell in the Eastern District of Louisiana include conspiracy, wire fraud, false statements and obstruction of justice, court filings show.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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First, it was hastily contrived and had weak monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.—
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Aug. 2025
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The Florida court contrived a weird and arbitrary compromise, granting new sentencing hearings only to death row prisoners whose sentences were considered final after 2002, when the U.S. court issued a decision that was a precursor to Hurst’s.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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“Counterplot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplot. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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