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Plotted for comparison is the U.S. survivorship curve for women as estimated by the Social Security Adminstration.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

Plotted on a graph, those two peaks in electricity use create a shape that’s sometimes called the “camel curve.”

From The Verge • Aug. 2, 2022

Plotted on a map of the Atlantic Ocean, it represented each ship as a single dot, moving from its departure point on the African coast to its arrival point in the Americas.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2022

Plotted over the past 35 years, teacher attrition in Washington state has only increased by half a percent at the most in a given year, according to a brief Goldhaber co-authored this year.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Plotted with their father, I'll answer for, with the hopes of getting husbands.

From Newton Forster by Marryat, Frederick