scheme
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However, legal challenges to the scheme - which will be heard in February 2027 -mean compensation calculations and payments have been delayed.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
“The upbringing of girls — in London and Paris and Moscow and all the places in between — was a scheme against them,” writes Li.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
That point is proved time and again, as editors scheme against each other, belittle each other’s literary taste and throw Batter under the bus whenever an opportunity arises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The two sides have been negotiating a new post-Brexit food and drink deal, a youth mobility scheme and an agreement on emissions tradings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
I’m honestly surprised that Camille and Andre were willing to participate in my scheme.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Several labelling schemes, including from Britain, France and Germany, were being showcased at the world's biggest book industry fair in Frankfurt this week, where the challenges posed by AI were hotly debated.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
All these cost money, and there are government schemes to support them.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The state estimate it loses millions of dollars annually because of such schemes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Twenty local authorities across England are now signed up to launch similar schemes to tackle the number of pupils starting school without being fully toilet-trained.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Few challenges to sentencing schemes, patterns, or results have been brought since McCleskey, for the exercise is plainly futile.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
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
Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy schemed against Stafford for 10 seasons when McCarthy coached the Green Bay Packers and Stafford played for the Lions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
That day, Seven, Thorn, and Valley huddled by the side entrance of the Ravenskill Hall of Elders and schemed.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
Where are the well-rounded characters, smart dialogue, ingenious scheming on one side and even more ingenious problem-solving on the other?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
And Zendaya’s Athena “turns out to be a vulnerable victim of war, or perhaps a projection of Odysseus’ conscience — not a scheming and bloodthirsty war goddess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The strangers on the Berg had taken notice of the two people scheming in the middle of the clearing.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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