scheme
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Emma Spry, the manager at UTASS, says the scheme helps with residents' "cash flow".
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
The unusual color scheme gave the candy instant appeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Unless a human participated in or knew about the scheme, Diamantis said, the A.I. system’s internal reasoning is “legally irrelevant.”
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
Authorities said 25,000 people marched through central Madrid on Saturday demanding protection for the Spanish state pension scheme, one of the hot topics in a parliamentary election next month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 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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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
The Goliath Corp., meanwhile, yearns to eliminate Thursday and execute grandiose schemes of literary mischief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
Countries were also encouraged to tailor insurance schemes or subsidies for under-served communities and to incorporate inequality indicators into their national health systems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
And he himself—where had he led them, with all his clever schemes?
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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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
His character, who schemed to succeed his ailing father as chief executive of the fictional Waystar Royco media and entertainment conglomerate, earned Strong his first Emmy Award in 2020, as well as two additional nominations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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
The U.S.O. troupes were sent by General P. P. Peckem, who had moved his headquarters up to Rome and had nothing better to do while he schemed against General Dreedle.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
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
It could be argued Tielemans' arrival addresses an issue Manchester United have had since Carrick quit in 2018; the scheming midfielder with an eye for a pass, who can break a defensive line.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But Aunt Kitty had other plans, and after we sat down with Mr. Pinkerton at his Philadelphia hotel, I learned what scheming she had in store.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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