scheme
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College football—a resilient, tribal, often thrilling American sports tradition forever chasing its next terrible idea—is closing in on its latest scheme:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Lee Fossey, from St Agnes, Cornwall, pays £30 a month into a savings scheme to spread the cost of heating oil throughout the year.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Harrogate-based architects Shaw & Jagger said the scheme was eventually passed by HM Planning Inspectorate through the country house clause, which allows development on green belt for buildings of "exceptional quality".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
One campaign group has welcomed the recognition that vaccine injury and bereavement is real and that the current scheme is not fit for purpose.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
This was all just another lie, another scheme to try to regain control over me.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The money will go towards 14 schemes across England, including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and upgrades to emergency departments.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Croick and Dieffenbach worked via Zoom to study schemes, installations and the skills it took to play under center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
There are also locally-run support schemes like the Surviving Winter campaign run by a group of charities in Wiltshire which supported more than 3,000 people last year with the cost of heating.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
To strengthen the country's defences against cyberattacks, government pilot schemes have been set up to use frontier AI to identify and address vulnerabilities in public services.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
It was just a bunch of convoluted schemes.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
Murdaugh introduced Satterfield’s sons to Cory Fleming, a fellow lawyer, who represented them in the case and schemed with Murdaugh to collect on his homeowner’s insurance policies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
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
No matter how she screamed and schemed, her husband refused to loosen his purse strings.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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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
Deluded self-mythologizing was at the core of Johnson’s mockumentary series “Nirvanna the Band the Show” and well-regarded movie expansion about two musicians perpetually scheming to perform at Toronto’s Rivoli club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Ms. Aviv writes of a psychotic mother with persecutory delusions who thinks her eldest daughter is in league with a scheming professor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He watches these rebels escape, scheming to find a way to capture even more.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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