plotting
English
Verb
plotting
- present participle and gerund of plot
Noun
plotting (countable and uncountable, plural plottings)
- The act of scheming or making plots; machination.
- The act of devising a plot for a work of fiction.
- 2025 June 25, Mick LaSalle, “Review: ‘M3GAN 2.0’ is clever about AI, but its tired plot wastes a smart premise”, in San Francisco Chronicle[1], archived from the original on 5 June 2026:
- It’s ironic that a movie so adventurous in its thinking should prove so imitative and pedestrian in its plotting, but that’s what we have in “M3GAN 2.0.”