Thesaurus results for PLOTS

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noun

plural of plot

as in schemes

a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends the Secret Service uncovered just in time a plot to assassinate the President

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as in fields

a small area of usually open land grew vegetables in a little plot

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as in properties

a small piece of land that is developed or available for development subdivided the old farm into plots for tract houses

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as in stories

the unfolding of events in a dramatic or literary work wrote novels in which the plot was always subordinate to the characterizations

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verb

present tense third-person singular of plot

as in plans

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company

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Recent Examples of plots

Noun

Casting child star vocal talents to bring his line drawings to life for the characters surrounding Charlie Brown (and his endless dilemmas of life story plots) wasn’t an easy feat for Schulz, since, after all, children grow up, and their vocals mature. —

Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026 Jane’s characters brim with oddball wisdom, and her genre-bending plots are always a delight. —

Tessa Yang, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026 Its plots are too lightweight against the backdrop of the real world. —

Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 June 2026 Inside, the museum boasts a planetarium, giant-screen theater, exhibition zones, and landscaped outdoor teaching plots organized around regional species and observable plant phenomena. —

Bridget Borgobello may 30, New Atlas, 30 May 2026 The main dining rooms look onto greenery and kitchen plots, and menus weave herbs, flowers and produce from the grounds together with ingredients from regional farms. —

Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 There’s a certain predictability to the plots in a Taylor Sheridan production — a kind of slow, relentless grind from crisis to crisis, punctuated by occasional eruptions of violence. —

Noel Murray, Vulture, 29 May 2026 The garden is a tidy collection of rectangular plots tended by co-team leads Elaine Davis and Jessica Asimus and three Colorado master gardeners. —

Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 29 May 2026 Additionally, some participants reported meaningful improvements in daily activities that had previously become difficult due to memory loss, such as reading books, managing finances, or following movie plots. —

Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 29 May 2026

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Shakespeare’s comedies especially understand the joy of watching people get trapped in schemes and plots well beyond their control. —

Literary Hub, 2 June 2026 Goldman here plots the earnings-revisions trend for 2027 among AI-infrastructure plays, energy companies, the overall S & P 500 and the rest of the S & P outside of AI and energy. —

Michael Santoli, CNBC, 19 May 2026 While the story is fundamentally the same as the original production — man discovers wife is having an affair, man then plots for his wife’s murder, man then must evade the cops — Hatcher brings the story to the 21st century in many ways. —

Amy Reyes may 14, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 Much of this underseen indie mockumentary, which starred Seymour Cassel as a slippery film producer who plots to hype an unknown schlub (Francesco Quinn) into the toast of the Cannes Film Festival, was also shot on location, guerrilla-style, this time during the 1995 festivities. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Killen strategically plots it out and gives us memorable supporting characters — Alice Braga as Creasy’s helper and driver, Scoot McNairy (great as usual) as a CIA field agent. —

Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 In Part 2 the factional fighting at court is increased rather than lessened by the arrival of Margaret of Anjou, the new queen, who—together with her lover, the duke of Suffolk—plots against Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and his ambitious duchess, Eleanor. —

Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026 Robert Pattinson also enters the franchise as the villain Scytale, who plots to end Paul's rule over the universe. —

Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026 Alexandre Dumas’s novel of identity and revenge gets a big-budget remake with Sam Claflin starring as Edmond Dantès, a sailor wrongly imprisoned in an island fortress who, after his escape and subsequent treasure finding, plots his vengeance. —

Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plots

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Critics, however, have questioned the administration’s motives behind the new division given that fraud was already prosecuted by the agency’s Criminal Division, which last year announced the largest coordinated takedown of healthcare fraud schemes in Justice Department history.

— Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
With no one coming to save him, Santi learned to save himself — cheating cards, running schemes, talking his way into and out of everything.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 June 2026