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scheme

[skeem] / skim /




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The support scheme is expected to be in place before the end of the month.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

More than 40,000 people have signed a petition calling for an under-threat ceramics firm in Derbyshire to be included in a government financial support scheme.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Kansas City introduced a more visitor-friendly pricing scheme, offering complimentary bus transportation between the airport and downtown for World Cup attendees.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

In a case still winding through court, federal officials allege the men spent nearly 10 years manufacturing false crime reports as part of a visa-fraud scheme.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

A grandson could be born with his grandmother’s nose or her skin color, without that feature being visible in either parent—a phenomenon virtually impossible to explain in terms of Pythagoras’s scheme of purely patrilineal heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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