counterplot
Americannoun
verb
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(tr) to oppose with a counterplot
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(intr) to devise or carry out a counterplot
Etymology
Origin of counterplot
Example Sentences
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Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets.
From Time Magazine Archive
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!
From Time Magazine Archive
Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power.
From Time Magazine Archive
But nobody else saw either plot or counterplot, until one morning, when a low soft voice arrested Sir Thomas as he was passing out of the garden door.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir
Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
There followed a long contest, in which there was plotting and counterplotting on one side and on the other, and manœuvres without end.
From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Would all this trouble, the plotting and counterplotting, never end?
From John Marsh's Millions by Hornblow, Arthur
So after all the plotting, the counterplotting, the dangers and hardships; after all her own gallant efforts, the girl had lost the game.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
Sir Robert Wingate listened while John Strong told the story of the plotting and counterplotting in Chicago.
From Ted Marsh on an Important Mission by Carsey, Alice
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