scheme
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She said the total number deported under the scheme since it began in August 2025 was around 1,400.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Justice Department said several companies used crypto exchange Binance to relay payments for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers, as part of a scheme to finance Iran’s military in violation of sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
And I’m sure someone has told her not to resurrect Nate Bargatze’s bizarre charity scheme to keep acceptance speeches short.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Spare no detail and no individual who you believe was involved in this scheme.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Eventually, the KGB came up with a scheme that would serve as a kind of smoke screen for Blake's spying on behalf of Russia.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Such confidence schemes are known as “pig butchering” — a particularly rancid term for a rancid business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Anthropic says in its report that some of the schemes go beyond the normal distillation methods companies use and instead resemble sophisticated illicit schemes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Just when you think you know all the cyber schemes, fraudsters find new ways to attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ministers in Cardiff are proposing to bring TGC together with other existing Welsh energy schemes, such as Ynni Cymru, which aims to expand locally-owned renewables and the government's energy service.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Even in the South American binary counting schemes, linguists see the beginnings of a quinary system.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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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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
“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
Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
"A thin, gleaming mustache and scheming, greedy eyes," Rani declares.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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