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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of plan.
  • adjective existing or designed according to a plan

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective planned in advance
  • adjective designed or carried out according to a plan

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Examples

  • He called Kyl a "nice guy" who had told a "horrible lie" that he said was fed to him by "fanatical enemies of Planned Parenthood who hate the idea that the word 'planned' should ever come before the word 'parenthood.'"

    Lawrence O'Donnell Tears Up While Emotionally Defending Planned Parenthood In Government Shutdown Fight (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • He called Kyl a "nice guy" who had told a "horrible lie" that he said was fed to him by "fanatical enemies of Planned Parenthood who hate the idea that the word 'planned' should ever come before the word 'parenthood.'"

    Lawrence O'Donnell Tears Up While Emotionally Defending Planned Parenthood In Government Shutdown Fight (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Police said Tuesday that the people fatally shot on Christmas Day by a man dressed as Santa Claus included his estranged wife, their two teenage children and three other family members in what they described as a planned assault that ended when the assailant killed himself.

    Wife and Children Among Victims of Shooter in Santa Suit, Police Say Daniel Gilbert 2011

  • For their new study, published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers Nanette Gartrell, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco (and a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles), and Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at the University of Amsterdam, focused on what they call planned lesbian families -- households in which the mothers identified themselves as lesbian at the time of artificial insemination.

    Alvin McEwen: Concerned Women for America are experts in cherry-picking science 2010

  • For their new study, published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers Nanette Gartrell, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco (and a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles), and Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at the University of Amsterdam, focused on what they call planned lesbian families -- households in which the mothers identified themselves as lesbian at the time of artificial insemination.

    Alvin McEwen: Concerned Women for America are experts in cherry-picking science 2010

  • Crawford's departure -- which she describes as a planned return to her teaching job -- serves as Downes 'main evidence supporting his claim that the Obama administration "is clearly backtracking" on Net Neutrality.

    Timothy Karr: 'AT&T Consultant' Conjures Evidence that Obama is Soft on Net Neutrality 2010

  • SHERIFF LEO SAMANIEGO, EL PASO, TX: They don't have the manpower necessary to handle what I call a planned, well-organized invasion of undocumented aliens and the increase in drug trafficking.

    CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2006 2006

  • Angeles, and Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at the University of Amsterdam, focused on what they call planned lesbian families - households in which the mothers identified themselves as lesbian at the time of artificial insemination.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • He called Kyl a "nice guy" who had told a "horrible lie" that he said was fed to him by "fanatical enemies of Planned Parenthood who hate the idea that the word 'planned' should ever come before the word 'parenthood.'"

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at University of Amsterdam, focused on what they call planned lesbian families - households in which the mothers identified themselves as lesbian at the time of artificial insemination.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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