to stitch together a plan
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4.9
- phrasal verb
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elaborar un plan
- Though it appears to depict one 24-hour period, the doc was actually shot over five months—allowing Nicks to follow individual patients through a day's worth of care and stitch the stories together.
- then stitch together a plan
Examples
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A 360-degree panorama, stitched together from Curiosity images, shows the rover and its surroundings in the Sept. 20-23 time frame.
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It will post its workings alongside, including full information on how more than 100 years of data from thousands of instruments around the world are stitched together to give a historic record of the planet's temperature.
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These can be compared against each other to reduce errors, then stitched together to recover the key itself.
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"And finally, big thanks to Dennis Lowery, who helped to gel the story and stitch it all together.
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As we know, panorama photos will be stitched together.
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Yes, your life is more of a patchwork quilt than mine since he stitched yours together so skillfully and uniquely.
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That's what the whole messy cap-and-trade fight of 2009-2010 was: an attempt by Dems to beg, bribe, and stitch together enough counter-constituencies to overcome resistance.
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The team worked hard to stitch together a plan for the new project that included ideas from everyone.
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After brainstorming, they managed to stitch together a plan that addressed all the concerns raised in the meeting.
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To prepare for the event, the committee needed to stitch together a plan that combined various elements from different departments.
Synonyms
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6.4
To combine ideas or materials to make something new
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6.3
To mix different things closely together, like threads or melodies
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3.9
Make people or groups work closely together as one
How Complete
- US
74
3.8
97
3.7
135
4.8
1
4.9
- Informal
22
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to create a plan by combining different elements' is directly inferable from the constituents: 'stitch' (to join), 'together' (jointly), and 'plan' (a scheme). This uses a common, productive sewing-as-assembling metaphor that follows normal compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows the words would likely understand it.
Etymology
The phrase stitch together a plan comes from the simple act of sewing: you stitch pieces of cloth together to make one whole item. So when people 'stitch together a plan', they quickly join different ideas or parts to make one working plan.