master plans

plural of master plan

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Recent Examples of master plans In a time when destinations are trying to achieve their tourism sustainability goals with master plans, Chichibu suggests there might be a different way. Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026 Instead of preparing separate master plans for each site, a process that has delayed projects for years, the city would streamline planning standards across commercial areas. Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026 Exceptions include areas identified as travel routes in master plans, areas designated as open for off-trail use and areas designated by rangers as open for off-trail use for public access. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026 In this case, Irvine’s planning commission approved master plans for The Canopy in November 2023. Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 25 May 2026 No matter what, though, Wigder believes the city’s master plans, or blueprints for the future, need to be looked at and updated responsibly. Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026 Her love of art led her to start Citi Arts, a public art and urban planning company that has created public art master plans for airports, transit facilities, streetscapes, and cities nationwide. Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026 And automakers worldwide were scrambling over each other to grab the microphone and make proclamations about their grand EV master plans and latest all-electric products. New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026 That absence recalls how Black communities have been deliberately omitted from Miami’s master plans for generations, first through segregation and redlining, now through redevelopment that renders the people who lived here an inconvenient memory. Alexandra Martinez, Artforum, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for master plans
Noun
  • Once the moon enters Gemini, conversations will pick up speed as plans become more flexible.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • That includes its previous plans to commit more than $10 billion to autonomous vehicles in the coming years.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Budgets and bureaucracy can move at a glacial pace, and internal politics often determine the weapons and strategies a country pursues in surprising ways.
    Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The best strategies come from understanding business objectives, listening carefully and aligning people before making decisions.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • For the first time, visitors can view color photographs from the museum's collection of the August Quarterly, see the church's original blueprints and read minutes from Sunday school programs.
    Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is handing Ukraine the blueprints to a valuable piece of his country’s military technology, thumbing his nose at a Kremlin that says the United Kingdom is now a party in the conflict.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Current oil market pricing directly affects whether these multi-year redevelopment programs balance their expenses.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • There were multiple big-time programs that needed new coaches that cycle, from heavyweights like Texas and LSU to the Phil Knight–backed Oregon.
    John Talty, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • This would be an intense time of building, assembling art and art cars, and a lot of people just have not been able to get any work done on their projects.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This award recognized the engineering that helped concrete arch construction move past limits that had held back similar projects for decades.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Master plans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/master%20plans. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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