Example Sentences

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Social scientists have plotted out the policies needed to protect the environment while creating a safer world for people.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

For centuries, moral cartographers have plotted the road to success.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2021

Becker, in fact, was reported to have met with a woman who was later implicated in a police report to have plotted a “citizen’s arrest” of DeWine.

From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2020

A crack team of air-traffic controllers, with the ability to freeze time, could not have plotted a better path to goal.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019

Never try to "sketch in" the contours until you have plotted the stream lines or the direction of the valleys, ravines, etc.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)