scheme
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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 government announced the Your First Home scheme in September and is expected to confirm further details when Chancellor John Healey delivers his Budget on Wednesday.
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
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
“And,” said Marjory, “from what I’ve heard, he never once came back here until he cooked up his crazy scheme to build a new library in the old bank building as a big publicity stunt.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
And that is even when you consider that our system compels workers to be automatically enrolled in occupational schemes.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 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
“I think your schemes will be useless, Mother.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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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
Sean McVay schemed against Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio only once as the Rams’ coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
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
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"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
“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
And Zendaya’s Athena “turns out to be a vulnerable victim of war, or perhaps a projection of Odysseus’ conscience — not a scheming and bloodthirsty war goddess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“He was right behind her, the scheming hyena! Not a coin in his pockets, not a cow to his name.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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