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map out

British  

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to plan or design

    to map out a route

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Some caution, however, that it is too early to map out Los Angeles’ political future.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

By carefully studying archival records and historical documents, the researchers were able to map out previously unknown branches of Leonardo's family.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

Google’s Research division on Thursday unveiled a new AI data set called Groundsource that has compiled details on flash floods from millions of news articles to map out rainfall patterns across the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Instead, this open source data will be used by established apps and websites that already map out and compare pump prices across the UK.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

While we waited for Mnyamani to map out our bottle-stealing itinerary for the day, out of the corner of one eye I saw a group of schoolboys coming down the street, heading in our direction.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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