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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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What began with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? would map out his whole career.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

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

From Barron's Aug. 28, 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

They popped up a swarm of short-lift attackers to map out Hugging Face’s network and took an astounding 17,000 actions during the hack, far more than a human would.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

At a certain point I decided to map out a strategy.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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