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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

Spare no detail and no individual who you believe was involved in this scheme.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Scientist Elena Chrysostomou also used a relocation support scheme to swap a big city for smalltown US.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

There would be no additional cost to taxpayers and no increase in council tax as a result of the scheme, it added.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

That it was time for every body to go, concluded the subject; and with a short final arrangement for the next day’s scheme, they parted.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Such confidence schemes are known as “pig butchering” — a particularly rancid term for a rancid business.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

According to White, working families on low incomes not only struggle to pay their bills, but miss out on schemes such as free school meals and subsidised holiday clubs.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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

Peter Pauling arrived with the inside news that his father was preoccupied with schemes for the supercoiling of a-helices in the hair protein, keratin.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

The company discovered in July that rogue AI agents had schemed in secret to break out of the virtual sandbox created to contain them, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

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

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

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

It was Simon who had convinced her of this, during their long night of scheming.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood