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Recent Examples of counterplot
Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
There’s something comforting about the normalcy of plot and counterplot, action and intrigue.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Noun
Bit by bit, the castle at Elsinore (broodingly rendered by scenic designer Lee Savage) turns into a stage for life-and-death plots and counterplots.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
There’s something comforting about the normalcy of plot and counterplot, action and intrigue.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterplot
Noun
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Here are five to watch: Midsummer madness NASCAR aims to spur interest, create intrigue and serve track owners.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2025
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The intrigue: Rumor has it Swift could be joined by singer/actress Selena Gomez and Gomez's fiancé, record producer Benny Blanco.—
Troy Smith,
Axios,
8 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Used to ruthlessly controlling everything and everyone around him whatever the cost, Marcos is also secretly plotting a big decision on his daughter’s behalf.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2025
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The 28-year-old Houston native was taken into custody for conspiring with ISIS web designers to plot a mass casualty attack against a Houston Jewish installation.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The visual language of The Substance is rendered in the machinations of gleaming advertisements meant to trade upon the fears embedded in women by a culture that argues death is preferable to aging.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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Her biggest swings are aimed at Spotify’s recommendation framework: the back-end machinations that silently power the playlists available to its 600 million users.—
Brad Shoup,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Spags did a masterful job of scheming against Buffalo’s fourth-and-short plays no matter what anyone thinks of that review, but the Eagles’ tush-push is in a category by itself.—
Hank Gola,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Smith has said politics played no part in his decisions and the evidence his team gathered was sufficient for Trump to have been convicted at trial on charges of scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.—
Stephen Groves,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This sequence introduces The Agency as a maze of contradictory nationalist motivations, paranoia-inducing surveillance, and prevalent subterfuge — and, in its hidden center, a love story.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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Using a figurehead Then again, Trump might just want to avoid all of these legal subterfuges by following the example of George and Lurleen Wallace.—
Philip Klinkner,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Last week, a former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was arrested on US charges of conspiring to steal government trade secrets to benefit China.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2025
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Veltri was leading the South Florida office when Trump was indicted in June 2023 on charges of withholding top secret documents from the U.S. government and conspiring with two of his Mar-a-Lago employees to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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As doctors tried to treat her, Kate’s parents openly discussed their suspicions that a conspiracy was forming around them – and that medical staff couldn’t be trusted.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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Freddy Artemio Guerrero Soto, 29, a national of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Not all movies need to serve up profound insights into the human condition, but the ones that don’t should at least be entertaining, and Twohy’s particular strain of absurdism is not just contrived, but deeply unfunny.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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The moral guardrails that hold our society together are not anything contrived by humans, but given by God.—
Lauren Green,
Fox News,
17 Nov. 2024
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“Counterplot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplot. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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