noun
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an instrument for plotting lines or angles on a chart
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a person who plots; conspirator
Etymology
Origin of plotter
Example Sentences
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When Issa’s wife reported the general had been abducted, Tévoédjrè naturally asked Capt. Samary, the QRF duty officer and secret plotter, to investigate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
To add insult to injury, she describes John Eastman, another coup plotter, as flashing a "leering grin" while Giuliani manhandled her.
From Salon • Sep. 22, 2023
White ribbons curl across the composition, their free forms in contrast to the tightly overlapping circles produced by a mechanical plotter.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022
The strike was particularly meaningful for the CIA, which lost seven employees in trying to find al-Zawahri, a key plotter of the Sept. 11 attacks who was then al-Qaida’s second-in-command.
From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2022
We could decide, after intense discussions, that a particular student was a plotter, but then we’d always find a reason not to challenge him just yet—to wait until “we had in all the evidence.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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