as in to plan
to work out the details of (something) in advance
mapped out a plan for the fledgling company to become profitable within two years
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Air Canada announced flights were planned to resume Aug. 18 after the Canadian government ordered the Canadian Union of Public Employees to call off the strike, according to a statement from the airline.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
17 Aug. 2025 -
The stadium would seemingly compete with Republic FC’s new stadium that is initially planned to fit 12,000 fans with the ability to expand to 20,000 or more, and also serve as a potential venue for concerts and events.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Legacy bot controls like robots.txt were designed for a different era.—
Jason Goldberg,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Planes are specifically designed to withstand even severe turbulence and buckling your seatbelt is the surest way to avoid injury, Gallego Marcos said.—
Renée Rigdon,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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State officials advised residents to prepare for the possibility of dangerous conditions along beaches and coastal communities.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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The inside reef flashed its teeth as the wave sucked up and prepared to break.—
Noah Lederman,
Robb Report,
21 Aug. 2025
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Helping her to organize the event will be Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
18 Aug. 2025
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Last year, Wilson County’s Tuckers Crossroads community organized a tractor parade to protest an industrial park plan on an approximate 1,380-acre location near Linwood and Bluebird Roads just off Interstate 40 in eastern Wilson County.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
18 Aug. 2025
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Ruth is arranged in a series of almost-irreverent vignettes, which date from Ruth’s early childhood in the 1960s through her middle age.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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As part of this project, Engel arranged for the students to meet with designers from Macy’s furniture store and Ikea as well as the lead visual merchandiser for Nordstrom’s.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
20 Aug. 2025
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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
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The dozens of Democratic legislators who fled Texas amid a redistricting fight are charting a plan for what comes next as the state’s first special legislative session winds down.—
Josh Feldman,
NBC news,
14 Aug. 2025
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The literary thriller charts the disappearance of a girl from an upstate New York summer camp — and links it to the mysterious vanishing of her brother years earlier.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Map (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/map%20%28out%29. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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