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
It included a new licensing scheme and a "fit and proper person" test.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But she added she did not think benefits in terms of cost of living were measured by the scheme.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Since 2024 children in four primary schools have been able to get apples, bananas and other fruit as part of the pilot scheme.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Why hadn’t he thought of this simple scheme before?
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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Defra says that an average of £2.3bn a year is being invested through its farming schemes in England and insists it is protecting farmers in trade deals and also making supply chains fairer.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
In one example, an unnamed customer was repeatedly connected to fraud schemes and high-risk international payments wires that were being investigated by law enforcement, resulting in more than 100 compliance cases, the filing said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
"There's no simple 'with AI' or 'without AI'," he said at the book fair, adding that basic schemes to categorise how much AI was used to produce a title could fall short.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Hrothgar, keen of mind, is out of schemes.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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Sean McVay and the Rams schemed against Kliff Kingsbury when he coached the Arizona Cardinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
It didn’t look like anything special, but it was manned by the Stoll brothers, and I shuddered to think what dirty tricks they’d schemed up.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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Of the four-person ensemble, I was most intrigued by Rachna Khatau, the wild card of the group whose roles are the most slyly scheming and unpredictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Instead of scheming to hack a company, a swarm with as many as 10,000 agents hacked away at math for 88 hours, building on each other’s work—and the work of humans—until they reached a solution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"A thin, gleaming mustache and scheming, greedy eyes," Rani declares.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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