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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of plot.

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  • adjective planned in advance

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Examples

  • Congress had a copy of the President's speech a day ahead, so there was no spontanaity in his response, it was .... how can I get my face on every news show and on the internet ... calculated and plotted from the moment he walked in the room.

    Wilson insists outburst during Obama speech 'spontaneous' 2009

  • It’s one of my faves, but defending it as tightly plotted is like, well … just go back and read accounts of why the powder blues were supposed to win the last series.

    Matthew Yglesias » Short and Sweet 2007

  • (F, lower level) densitometric analysis of gene expression plotted as the expression ratio to GAPDH, used as internal control.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lavinia Nardinocchi et al. 2009

  • The paper said it had obtained documents from 1993 showing that the White House "plotted" to push a "Kids First" insurance program if Mrs. Clinton's universal health care proposal failed.

    Hillary Partially Vindicated On Story About Woman In Ohio 2009

  • The paper said it had obtained documents from 1993 showing that the White House "plotted" to push a "Kids First" insurance program if Mrs. Clinton's universal health care proposal failed.

    Giving Hillary Credit for SCHIP 2008

  • 'Faulkner's books are extraordinarily discursive and complex, not "plotted" in the ordinary sense but seeming rather to have grown according to their own internal dynamics, resulting in many sub-plots and cul de sacs.

    The Private World of William Faulkner Coughlan, Robert, 1914- 1953

  • I think they were "plotted" into a diagram and exhibited in curves, which was not much use to them, but helped to soothe the nerves of authorities.

    A Padre in France George A. Birmingham 1907

  • In the next chapter I shall deal with the use in reasoning of such curves, either actually 'plotted' or roughly imagined.

    Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895

  • If the complicated courses and distances in this were originally wrong, or if the copy of them is false, it is obvious that they cannot be "plotted" upon a correct chart.

    The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. 1891

  • Mrs.A. has been ill for some time, and Mrs.S. her sister and another friend "plotted" in a very "clandestine" manner that I should come here for a few days in order to give her "a little change of society," but I am quite sure that under this they only veil a kind wish that I should see something of plantation life.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867

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