Lay
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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An Aesop - The movie manages to lay the "Individuality/Anti-Conformity" variety subtly underneath the main plot, while at the same time hammering it in our faces as part of the main plot.
- I Love the Dead: The plot of the final episode is Buttons' ghost stealing Dan's girlfriend by being a better lay.
Source: Series / Puppets Who Kill - Said narrator was Joji Nakata, who proceeded to lay into the plot and the This Loser Is You protagonist with a voice so smarmy it could melt butter.
Source: Lemony Narrator
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Plot and Lay. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lay/plot
Lay & Plot. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lay/plot>.
Plot or Lay. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lay/plot.
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