Examples of plotter in a Sentence
The police caught the plotters of the bank heist.
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In between, the lead plotters decided to kill Moïse on July 4, but pushed the plan back for three days, according to the indictment.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
Until this week, U.S. investigators had given considerable weight to evidence that suggested the plotters had abandoned Sanon as Moïse’s successor after the airport saga, in favor of Haitian Supreme Court Justice Windelle Coq Thélot.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
The coup plotters are either out (board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley) or severely chastened (cofounder and now former board member Ilya Sutskever).
—David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
Crowds pour into the streets in support of the coup plotters.
—Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
The Reichsbürger plotters were heavily influenced by the QAnon conspiracy theory and may have taken direct inspiration from the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6 2021, according to Neumann.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
Blinken also spoke with former president Mahamadou Issoufou, whom U.S. officials are using as an intermediary with the coup plotters.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez—Fortune A painter named Andre Hemer at the event told me that art made with similar plotters was big in the ‘70s, although the modern version is much more lucrative thanks to NFTs.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 14 Apr. 2023
Burkina Faso and Mali warn against military intervention On Monday, Burkina Faso and Mali said in a joint statement that any military intervention against Niger would be considered war on them, after other West African leaders imposed financial and travel penalties against the coup plotters.
—Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
Until this week, U.S. investigators had given considerable weight to evidence that suggested the plotters had abandoned Sanon as Moïse’s successor after the airport saga, in favor of Haitian Supreme Court Justice Windelle Coq Thélot.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
The coup plotters are either out (board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley) or severely chastened (cofounder and now former board member Ilya Sutskever).
—David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
Crowds pour into the streets in support of the coup plotters.
—Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
The Reichsbürger plotters were heavily influenced by the QAnon conspiracy theory and may have taken direct inspiration from the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6 2021, according to Neumann.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
Blinken also spoke with former president Mahamadou Issoufou, whom U.S. officials are using as an intermediary with the coup plotters.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez—Fortune A painter named Andre Hemer at the event told me that art made with similar plotters was big in the ‘70s, although the modern version is much more lucrative thanks to NFTs.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 14 Apr. 2023
Burkina Faso and Mali warn against military intervention On Monday, Burkina Faso and Mali said in a joint statement that any military intervention against Niger would be considered war on them, after other West African leaders imposed financial and travel penalties against the coup plotters.
—Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
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First Known Use
1588, in the meaning defined above
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