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scheme

[skeem] / skim /




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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

Established in 2012, the scheme runs workshops in Welsh schools, where the company identifies children it believes have natural ability in dance but are not in any formal training.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Why hadn’t he thought of this simple scheme before?

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

But Lovell said "not all companies have delivered the environmental improvement schemes they have been funded for".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

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

Once they had found out, they had been hexed with forbidden magic in order to go along with the Uncles’ schemes when they did not want to.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

That day, Seven, Thorn, and Valley huddled by the side entrance of the Ravenskill Hall of Elders and schemed.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Dumas centers his story of intrigue and dynastic scheming on the bride, Marguerite de Valois, whose marriage to the Protestant Henry of Navarre had brought so many Huguenots to Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

There unfolds a somewhat Wodehousian investigation involving undercover spies and scheming holdovers from Oswald Mosley’s disgraced fascist party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“They bring a bit of everything, and Coach Patterson does a great job of scheming up the defense,” Paige said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I’m sorry. After you’ve been surrounded by so much scheming, you start to think that’s how everyone plays.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman


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