subplots

Definition of subplotsnext
plural of subplot

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Noun
  • These facilities typically house dozens of robots in large office-like spaces spanning thousands of square meters, where human operators repeatedly perform simple tasks alongside the machines to generate and record detailed data on key physical actions.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Making use of all the available tools and new technologies, the Festival’s Agora showcased a new series of actions and backed successful initiatives that took place both in physical spaces and online.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • For more than six decades, communist Cuba thwarted every destabilizing measure Washington aimed its way — assassination plots, a trade embargo, sabotage, travel bans and, most notoriously, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, when Fidel Castro’s revolution was still young and the Cold War raging.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Gavin is a true leader, guiding a group of high school technicians through tasks such as hanging light plots, patching, and programming the light board.
    Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • That combination — genuine suffering refracted through dark humor, hardship worn lightly — is exactly what American audiences are finding so alluring in Korean stories right now.
    Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Kilmer’s role ties closely to the film’s cultural themes.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The series’ ad nauseam repetition, its pat dialogue laying bare its themes and episode titles reaffirming those ideas, feel like a desperate, and ultimately failed, attempt to prove to us — or maybe to itself — that Imperfect Women actually has something enlightening to say.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The subjects are clearly not dressed for rugged terrain.
    Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Built off the foundation laid by Fisher’s 2023 short of the same name about some of the same subjects, the film gets across the diversity of these parents’ experiences, ranging from dads who didn’t get it at first to others who were quicker to understand and accept their children’s feelings.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
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“Subplots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subplots. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

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