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Justice Department said several companies used crypto exchange Binance to relay payments for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers, as part of a scheme to finance Iran’s military in violation of sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The following is a summary of my interactions concerning this investment scheme:

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Scientist Elena Chrysostomou also used a relocation support scheme to swap a big city for smalltown US.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

There would be no additional cost to taxpayers and no increase in council tax as a result of the scheme, it added.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

There, he said, he planned to “draft a new letter to my potential investors. Racing wolves! Half-human child jockeys! It’s one brilliant moneymaking scheme after another!”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Such confidence schemes are known as “pig butchering” — a particularly rancid term for a rancid business.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

According to White, working families on low incomes not only struggle to pay their bills, but miss out on schemes such as free school meals and subsidised holiday clubs.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

A couple of support schemes have been set up by the NHS for those receiving care - but places are limited and the application process can be, by the NHS's own admission, external, complex.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Anthropic says in its report that some of the schemes go beyond the normal distillation methods companies use and instead resemble sophisticated illicit schemes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Then Madame said, barely audibly: “Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Sean McVay schemed against Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio only once as the Rams’ coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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

He’d schemed his way out of that one and saved his friends all by himself, but at least he’d had time to think.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

What are rising mortgage rates and utility bills when you’ve been neutralized by some bioweapon engineered by a collective of scheming AI agents, recursively self-improving their way to planetary domination?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

There unfolds a somewhat Wodehousian investigation involving undercover spies and scheming holdovers from Oswald Mosley’s disgraced fascist party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

It could be argued Tielemans' arrival addresses an issue Manchester United have had since Carrick quit in 2018; the scheming midfielder with an eye for a pass, who can break a defensive line.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

He talked in a way that told Cora he was scheming.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead