scheme
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Spanning an area the size of Singapore, the $700-million scheme is the first cross-border wind project in Asia and the largest wind farm in Southeast Asia.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Prosecutors said Mailyan was involved in an elaborate fraud scheme that ignored Medicare’s rules for Botox coverage and brazenly fabricated medical records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
And the modern compulsion to text cheeky little jokes alluding to the scheme, once again, claims new victims.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Lord Houchen told the BBC he is working on a voluntary scheme that would give local residents the opportunity to apply for a share of the tax distributed to his region.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Vidocq’s scheme worked so well he convinced the Paris police to make him the head of a new undercover unit.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Despite warnings that an escape attempt would turn the Romanian guards against the prisoners, Bob O’Reilly, Poulson’s Missouri-born pilot, schemes with a number of POWs to tunnel out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Philippines foreign ministry earlier said Lazaro had spent Wednesday in the eastern state of Shan, overseeing humanitarian schemes aiding those displaced in the civil war triggered by the coup.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
But Lovell said "not all companies have delivered the environmental improvement schemes they have been funded for".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
It should require elaborate schemes hidden from the public to keep them from panicking.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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The company discovered in July that rogue AI agents had schemed in secret to break out of the virtual sandbox created to contain them, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
She was the smart girl who schemed to get out of schoolwork, but also a stranger who suggested hanging out with someone new.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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Of the four-person ensemble, I was most intrigued by Rachna Khatau, the wild card of the group whose roles are the most slyly scheming and unpredictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Rent-seeking doesn’t require corrupt businessmen scheming with corrupt politicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
With the election resolved, the work of building a governing team brought about more than a little competitive scheming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
These soldier types were forever scheming up one thing or another.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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