schemer
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They didn’t want a repeat of Angelica, the cackling 3-year-old schemer of “Rugrats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
You’ll get to listen to convicted Ponzi schemer Paul Regan systematically probing clients for their psychological weaknesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Duer was also an inveterate speculator and get-rich-quick schemer: “king of the alley,” as Thomas Jefferson derisively referred External link to Wall Street.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
But Lee’s also a schemer whose griminess is his superpower.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
“The old schemer was hiding in the woods. I flushed him out of the bushes like a hound flushes out a fox. A merry hunt it was, wouldn’t you say, Eddie, old boy?”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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