That's a lot of plot for one play, especially when it contains 18 characters whose personal relationships are so knotty that they're outlined in the cast list.

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In isolation, this week's stories are all pretty notable, but if you put them together, it begins to sound a lot like the plot of a movie.

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And so I wanted a lot of the plot in these books to be driven by social issues, specifically social issues that are of interest to the black community and to me as a black woman.

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There is a lot more to the plot, but this little love story is the surprisingly touching core.

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Again, I want to caution against drawing too much in the way of causal inference, but this scatter plot looks a lot like older scatter plots I have done.

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On a small plot it takes a lot of expensive labor to keep at bay pests like phylloxera and the Japanese beetle, and afflictions like Pierce's disease that destroy vine yields.

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"A lot of their information was based on small plot data and also estimates of what would be needed in the agronomic production of biofuels, " Dr Vogel explained.

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Amazon just injected a whole lot of drama into the Christmas consumer electronics season plot line.

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Indeed, the late 1980s and early 1990s had their share of major plot twists, but there seem to be a lot more of them lately.

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