counterplotted

Definition of counterplottednext
past tense of counterplot

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Verb
  • Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage Authorities say the teen carefully plotted the shooting at his Barrow County high school, including allegedly leaving a notebook with handwritten instructions detailing the steps to prepare for the violence and a diagram of his classroom.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Read retrieved Hunter and brought her back to Sacramento where the pair plotted the near-fatal attack.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • But he was intrigued that George Washington appointed Adams to his first diplomatic post and Adams later served in Congress with Abe Lincoln.
    Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Spoelstra, who has been named the head coach of Team USA for the Los Angeles Games, is intrigued by that possibility.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Conrad and Dial showed still images to the others at the jail, and devised a plan of capture should the man return.
    James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Still, scientists have devised clever ways to investigate how sleep and dreams can affect us.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The ice bucket set-up for their initial confrontation felt contrived and Vida and Dodie’s dramatic actions involving their hotel room door felt out of character.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Prosecutors with the First Judicial District Attorney's Office claim Heskett contrived a story that he had been attacked by a man near a trail in the state park.
    Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Teams clearly schemed to exploit him in the pick-and-roll.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • An au pair who schemed with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man received a 10-year sentence on Friday.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, a young, party-loving event planner named Bronson van Wyck heard about the secret Oscar lane and hatched a plan.
    Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
  • On the surface, the forms resemble a series of boxes, hatched bands, grids, and diamonds.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Once a sky-blue democracy is restored, may Trump’s days of infamy be ruled illegitimate and his name and legacy duly tainted by all of history, darkly blackened or cautiously reddened in the honest records that this twerp and his twisted cohorts have conspired so heinously to whitewash.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Justice Department Prosecutors also allege Ebisawa conspired to sell 500 kilograms of methamphetamine and 500 kilograms of heroin to an undercover agent to be distributed in New York.
    CBS News, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
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“Counterplotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplotted. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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