scheme
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Highland Council said flood gates on the mile-long Caol and Lochyside flood protection scheme, near Fort William, had been closed following a warning from Sepa.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
But the scheme has proved controversial among residents worried about traffic jams in neighbouring areas as well as among disability rights activists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
The unusual color scheme gave the candy instant appeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Unless a human participated in or knew about the scheme, Diamantis said, the A.I. system’s internal reasoning is “legally irrelevant.”
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
Certainly, Newton was right: Papin’s scheme was hopelessly expensive.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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In May 2025, a grand jury indicted Owens on one count of fraudulent schemes, one count of forgery, four counts of perjury and one count of tampering with physical evidence in Echard’s case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
That distinction becomes especially important in the CD-35 2722 system, where the possible moon is itself massive enough to be considered a planet under some classification schemes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The Goliath Corp., meanwhile, yearns to eliminate Thursday and execute grandiose schemes of literary mischief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Bounce back loans worth a total of £46bn were issued when the scheme was launched in May 2020, making it the biggest of the government's pandemic-era loan schemes.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
They were mostly in for white-collar crimes, money schemes, fraud and racketeering.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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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
So it should come as no surprise that before his 10-year run as UCLA’s basketball coach ended in 2013, Howland had schemed for his dream retirement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025
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
And though I had prayed and figured and thought and schemed, I could not come up with a way to make those numbers look any better.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Elsewhere on the front page, two contestants from this season of the Celebrity Traitors, Maya Jama and Richard E Grant, are pictured scheming in their iconic green cloaks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
“They bring a bit of everything, and Coach Patterson does a great job of scheming up the defense,” Paige said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
John Garrett was sure the men were scheming to steal their horses in the middle of the night.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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