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Authorities allege on July 21, 1993, Solis and two co-conspirators plotted a robbery of Guerrero, a narcotics supplier, at his Bronx apartment.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026 -
Authorities say the teen carefully plotted the shooting at his Barrow County high school, including allegedly leaving a notebook with handwritten instructions detailing the steps to prepare for the violence and a diagram of his classroom.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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He was particularly intrigued by schizophrenia—the pinnacle of madness and the most complex puzzle of all.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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Many people like me — scientists and coffee enthusiasts — were intrigued by a long-term study that found that those who drank multiple cups of coffee a day were less likely to develop dementia.—
Richard M. Ransohoff,
Washington Post,
28 Apr. 2026
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Sometimes acronyms are purposely devised to reinforce a message.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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In a statement released earlier this month, company officials claimed the engine was devised in response to rising costs in general aviation.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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New quarterback Anthony Colandrea brings a degree of swag that is not contrived.—
Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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The entire deal felt cheesy and contrived.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2026
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San Francisco jurors stopped short of finding the Texas billionaire intentionally schemed to defraud investors.—
Staff,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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The Democratic primary was uncontested after Garcia quietly schemed to place his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, on the ballot without any Democratic competition.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Together, LaSota and Danielson hatched a plan to convince other Rationalists to live together on boats too, with the idea of minimizing their collective living expenses in order to make more room in their lives for intellectual work — work on AI safety in particular.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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Jackie and Shadow's eggs hatched earlier this month, leaving their nest with two new eaglets to raise.—
Austin Turner,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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As teen-agers, the sisters conspired to get jobs in a cafeteria in nearby Pripyat.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Federal prosecutors allege that Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother conspired to funnel the $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds into her campaign coffers.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Counterplotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterplotted. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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