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The prime minister expressed concerns about how British industry and supply chains could be affected by the planned Made In Europe scheme.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Teams are put in place to ensure the comedian can focus on generating jokes while they scheme new ways to metastasize its distribution and justify their own salaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

An incinerator scheme to help clean up the ecological catastrophe turned out to be a vast multi-million-dollar scam that included a "ghost" incinerator for the capital Tirana that was never built.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

A former transport minister in June was sentenced to 24 years in prison for a pandemic-era corruption scheme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Instead, I began to scheme, as it seemed everyone around me had been doing from the start.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Perhaps the mayor will now muster some sympathy for businesses mugged in similar schemes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The state estimate it loses millions of dollars annually because of such schemes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

But in 2022, a report by the University of Sheffield, called Manchester Offshored, raised questions about the wider public value of the schemes, and a lack of transparency around their finances.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Although Cousins is in the twilight of his career, he has thrown a league-high nine touchdown passes, thriving in a system that emphasizes play action schemes and quickly diagnosing coverages, two areas where Cousins excels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

A similar problem has frustrated schemes to breed the vicuna, an Andean wild camel whose wool is prized as the finest and lightest of any animal’s.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

"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

With the election resolved, the work of building a governing team brought about more than a little competitive scheming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

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

“You’re scheming, aren’t you? You’re thinking you’re going to do it in secret. I can tell.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson