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scheme

[skeem] / skim /




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No stylists get involved, she says, and no one tells her a color scheme or outfit choice ahead of time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The scheme is similar to previous programmes including Help to Buy, which also used equity loans to support home purchases.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Part of the scheme allegedly revolved around Elite Model Management, run by John Casablancas, who was a friend of both Epstein’s and Trump’s.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

After watching Brazil, you could argue the scheme is no longer diabolical so much as announced.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

This scheme has a collateral rub: when the regulators themselves go rogue, nothing can stop a cell from replicating continuously.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Gen. Rob Bonta held dueling news conferences Thursday, with each touting their efforts to crack down on medical providers accused of needless surgical procedures, sham addiction treatment program, bogus hospice care and other alleged schemes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Goliath Corp., meanwhile, yearns to eliminate Thursday and execute grandiose schemes of literary mischief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Countries were also encouraged to tailor insurance schemes or subsidies for under-served communities and to incorporate inequality indicators into their national health systems.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

He had the most schemes and plans, and no one would give him any money.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy schemed against Stafford for 10 seasons when McCarthy coached the Green Bay Packers and Stafford played for the Lions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

They leaped and schemed escapes, producing doors from air.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

Agents and bots in its labs were caught scheming, hiding errors and ignoring restraints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Instead of scheming to hack a company, a swarm with as many as 10,000 agents hacked away at math for 88 hours, building on each other’s work—and the work of humans—until they reached a solution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

“You’re scheming, aren’t you? You’re thinking you’re going to do it in secret. I can tell.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson


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