plotter

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Recent Examples of plotter At the latter, socially inept Nick manages to make a conquest of Maxwell’s wife Cynthia (Lucy Punch), who’s disgruntled enough to appoint herself a third plotter against her own husband. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025 Though ultimately abandoned, the plotters went so far as to begin tracking Moraes’s movements, according to the New York Times. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 22 Nov. 2025 Thompson is perfectly paired with Wilson, an actor who can go from disheveled wallflower to calculating plotter to deer-in-the-headlights comic fighter with a widening of the eye or twisting of the lips. Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025 The big difference is that a plotter typically uses digital commands to control the pen’s motion, while the motion of a recorder’s pen is controlled by analog voltage inputs. Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for plotter
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Noun
  • That co-conspirator has been charged but remains at large.
    Sergio Candido, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • As of April 10, at least five of the conspirators have been booked in Yolo County jail, and two people were arrested in outside of the county, according to Reisig.
    Noe Padilla, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Thomas Jefferson, the great hero of the Declaration of Independence, is shown as hypocritical, cowardly, manipulative, a schemer of every kind.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The standout is Jack Davenport, playing Soames’ father James as a shameless schemer, bent on frustrating his brother’s side of the family by any means necessary.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As the castle’s internal order collapses under the weight of a string of baffling crimes, Araki strikes a fragile alliance with Kuroda Kanbei – a razor-minded captive languishing in his own dungeon – in a race to root out a traitor before Oda’s army closes in.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
  • In the context of his time, Jesus was considered a traitor — an enemy of the Roman Empire.
    Michael J Christensen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The first lady also addressed an email that was released from the Epstein files, showing her correspondence via email with Epstein’s coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
    Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The group is also accused of lining their pockets and the pockets of their coconspirators in Colombia by laundering tens of thousands of dollars of victims' funds.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026

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“Plotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plotter. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.

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