counterplotted

verb

Definition of counterplottednext
past tense of counterplot
as in plotted

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  1. intrigued
  2. devised
  3. schemed
  4. hatched
  5. conspired
Verb
  • The artist who would eventually become the voice of a generation was then a 19-year-old college dropout bored with the Midwest and intrigued by the folk music coming out of Lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
    Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • He was intrigued by its interest in creating a more multicultural church.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of intrigued
Verb
  • That should become a standard part of the chain-of-thoughts being devised by AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Similarly, Ping’s team devised a system that pauses the pH-modulating current just long enough for a graphene transistor to record accurate readings without interference.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of devised
Verb
  • During an appearance on The Early Show, Simpson revealed that Johnson asked her parents permission to marry her, and had schemed out the proposal for some time.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • But Reddit users have advised her in the comments section to do the opposite, with some even suspecting that there was no other dress and that the bride schemed to wear her stepsister's dress all along.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of schemed
Verb
  • But Lively says this was hatched by a PR team hired by Baldoni.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The suit alleges that the financial institutions employing Zelle have caused Americans to lose hundreds of millions of dollars via scams hatched on it.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of hatched
Verb
  • British Major John Andre, who conspired with Benedict Arnold, was confined in this building shortly before his execution.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The two men allegedly conspired to procure goods and technology from Sadeghi’s place of work and exported them and supplied them to Iran to Abedini’s Iranian company SDRA.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of conspired
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