scheming

Example Sentences

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“So now it looks like I had been kind of scheming and forcing this to happen,” Adkins said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Meng, who had initially been charged with scheming to evade US sanctions on Iran, was freed in September 2021.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Their closeness derails Rausch’s “three steps ahead” scheming.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

Her 2017 debut, “Dark Blue Girl,” concerned a young girl scheming to keep her separated parents from getting back together.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan