scheme
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The government said it was working on a new scheme to increase young people's involvement in democracy and decision-making, with further announcements due this autumn.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Nearly 1,500 Myanmar migrants from Malaysia arrived in their war-torn home country on Sunday, a Myanmar Navy official said, returned under an opaque repatriation scheme.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Last month, applications opened for a separate means-tested scheme to provide a £100 voucher to some heating oil users.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
In 2024, Earthmade received more than $176 million from two Malaysia-based shipment companies as part of the scheme, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
A new scheme had just flickered into my mind.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The reduction is the local outworking of two schemes which apply in Great Britain, which has a separately regulated electricity market.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
It gives money to farmers who have turned parts of their land over to schemes such as planting hedges, creating wildflower margins and protecting the soil.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Although Cousins is in the twilight of his career, he has thrown a league-high nine touchdown passes, thriving in a system that emphasizes play action schemes and quickly diagnosing coverages, two areas where Cousins excels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Since then many more women have come forward to say they were victims of Love’s schemes, which often involved him impersonating a San Francisco 49ers player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Plus, Anna was the only girl not involved in Lexie’s schemes, which made her brave, too.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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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
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
For the next five years, Blake schemed a way to escape the high walls and drab food of "the Scrubs," as it was called by the inmates.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
"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
What are rising mortgage rates and utility bills when you’ve been neutralized by some bioweapon engineered by a collective of scheming AI agents, recursively self-improving their way to planetary domination?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
His enigmatic silence, however, unquestionably had mischievous consequences, for it prolonged the scheming in the House and, somewhat ironically, convinced Jefferson that Burr could never be trusted.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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