scheme
Example Sentences
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“His calculated ‘pump-and-dump’ schemes repeatedly wiped out employee and investor value.
From Los Angeles Times
In one instance, it called a new election in a congressional race tainted by an illegal scheme to fraudulently collect and fill out mail-in ballots.
From Salon
In popular usage, it assumes the thing signified must be false, whereas people do conspire, and it is reasonable to devise theories about their schemes.
Providing unskilled public work across all but fully urban districts, the scheme has become a backbone of rural livelihoods, cushioning demand during economic shocks.
From BBC
Under the evacuation scheme all patients are sent back after medical attention.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
