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scheme

[skeem] / skim /




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Across the U.K., only one in 10 cars sold under the scheme are modified for a disability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This week the charity announced its potty-training scheme, which provides resources and support including increased training for nurseries, schools and professionals, will be rolled out in Solihull.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

A banged-up Broncos secondary is more inviting to Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, who has struggled to find his rhythm in the scheme of new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The scheme was brought in to relieve pressure on prisons across England and Wales which were dangerously close to reaching full capacity.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

He seems to have some settled scheme of his own, but what it is I do not yet know.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Current schemes mostly allow a minimal use of AI, for example for research and grammar checks, but there are worries this could be open to interpretation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The state estimate it loses millions of dollars annually because of such schemes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Although Cousins is in the twilight of his career, he has thrown a league-high nine touchdown passes, thriving in a system that emphasizes play action schemes and quickly diagnosing coverages, two areas where Cousins excels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The UK's official competition watchdog investigated supermarkets' loyalty pricing schemes in 2024 and concluded shoppers "almost always make a genuine saving".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Hrothgar, keen of mind, is out of schemes.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

Special Counsel David Weiss also filed new charges and nine new tax counts last week, alleging he schemed to avoid paying about $1.4 million in taxes over a three-year period.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

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

"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

Rent-seeking doesn’t require corrupt businessmen scheming with corrupt politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

Hardly the smoking gun that puts him in an Afghan cave, scheming with Osama bin Laden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

She watched the cheating husbands and scheming wives as faithfully as ever, but she didn’t reprimand them anymore, as if she’d given up correcting the errors of the world.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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