scheme
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That in large part is a withering indictment of new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, whose scheme has been a round-peg, square-hole fiasco, with his players unable to establish any semblance of a rhythm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Nvidia is probing whether Huang was targeted as part of a foreign-intelligence scheme, but said he will stay on as CEO “without interruption” and that business momentum won’t slow down.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Tandridge District Council is funding the scheme, which last ran in January, to support residents with the cost of living.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Nvidia’s board of directors is probing whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted as part of a foreign-intelligence scheme, the company announced on Sunday.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026
The monochromatic color scheme, the endless circles of the pathways like clockworks.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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However, it said children would still be able to get milk through breakfast schemes and free lunches.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
At home, when he was charged with babysitting his little brother, he’d enlist the smaller boy in elaborate role-playing schemes of his own devising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Will Garrett’s return free Donald from double teams and other schemes?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
‘I had a good reason for that! At any rate, now Zeus blames me for everything - Octavian’s schemes, the fall of Delphi -’ ‘Wait.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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Sean McVay and the Rams schemed against Kliff Kingsbury when he coached the Arizona Cardinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
He schemed to get an imported copy seized by customs to trigger a court case over its content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Afforded extra space by his manager's decision to play Jack Grealish alongside him in a central position, De Bruyne schemed in the way he usually does.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024
City-states, hoping to win civic glory, sometimes schemed to bribe top athletes to falsely claim that city as their own.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
No matter how she screamed and schemed, her husband refused to loosen his purse strings.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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Thanks to this scheming, Yarbrough’s chances—to represent a district that includes parts of one of the most diverse cities in the U.S.—are looking good.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
Dumas centers his story of intrigue and dynastic scheming on the bride, Marguerite de Valois, whose marriage to the Protestant Henry of Navarre had brought so many Huguenots to Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"I know what I did, I know what we did, and I know how it happened. It didn't feel like we were scheming or plotting."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Agents and bots in its labs were caught scheming, hiding errors and ignoring restraints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
I had to tell my mother—that I knew what she was doing, her scheming ways of making me miserable.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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