as in planning
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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Richland, despite its relative youth, isn’t planning on taking a step back.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Aug. 2025 -
That's when the state is planning to put Ralph Menzies to death for the murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit nearly 40 years ago.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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In the email exchange with University of Texas faculty who were preparing a grant application for a federal methane-reduction program, Pruett blamed the increases on inadequate infrastructure to capture the gas.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Its rivals, meanwhile, are circling its customers, and one is preparing for the possibility the budget travel icon shuts down altogether.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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James Steyer, the CEO of Common Sense Media, an organization that wants to place stronger regulations around what children are exposed to online, celebrated the warning label bill and another that would prohibit developers from designing certain products that are intended to be used by children.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The three-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling was commissioned in 1950 by Clifton Lewis, the wife of prominent local banker George Lewis II, while Wright was in the area designing Florida Southern College’s campus.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
29 Aug. 2025
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Local restaurants were organizing trucks of free food.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
29 Aug. 2025
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Iran is specifically accused of organizing an act of arson on a kosher restaurant in Sydney last October and another on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
28 Aug. 2025
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The Kremlin rejected the allegation, stressing that Putin was not plotting against Washington.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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The case became even more horrifying when he was accused of plotting to silence a key witness.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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Law portrays a younger Putin, depicted as ruthlessly calculating and enigmatic, while Alicia Vikander plays Ksenia, Baranov’s lover and moral counterweight.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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The data also is crucial for the Finance Department’s economic and revenue forecasting, as well as for its work on the state budget, which includes calculating the minimum wage and cost of living.—
CalMatters,
Oc Register,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Mapping (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mapping%20%28out%29. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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