scheme
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Once Hana gets involved in her illicit money-making scheme, the narrative changes gear, tension levels are cranked up and what started out as a straightforward study of friendship turns into a fast-paced story of survival.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
On Wednesday this week, the two sides announced the UK was rejoining the EU's Erasmus+ scheme too, helping more young people from the UK to study across the bloc.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Prosecutors in the court filings said the NFL players were not involved in the alleged scheme.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Williams was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, but Dandridge said he had "challenged the leniency" through a scheme overseen by the Attorney General's office.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
For decades before the Mona Lisa theft, he’d been suspected of every con, every forgery, every eccentric scheme: if the job was brilliant, it might be the work of Adam Worth.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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