scheme

Example Sentences

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At the moment, this scheme has been tempered by factors he didn’t reckon on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The scheme started after the EU's Common Agricultural Policy began calculating subsidies based on land instead of livestock in 2014.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

It is, in other words, completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Motability says its average drives clock up 7,500 miles a year and Scotland's version of the scheme was still considering the cap.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

“What we have here, my good comrades in arms,” said Jess grandly, “is stage one of our anti-battering-ram scheme, thanks to my small offspring here who found the hornets’ nest.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques