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map out

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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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Apple offers the chip maker a road map out of its P/E funk.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Ode engineers sit with audit leaders to map out the daily workflows of financial and tax accountants to gauge where to ramp up use of AI agents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The key is to map out where you are in your current tax bracket and where RMDs will push you in the future.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

On top of this, Infantino may also have to map out - or could offer - a route for reform.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

He left the men and, moments later, he and Ugwu started to map out and dig an area behind the building.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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