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Cronje targeted impressionable team-mates to become part of his scheme.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Last week, ministers announced a new Your First Home policy to help first-time homebuyers in England with a deposit of 2.5%, similar to the Help To Buy scheme introduced under the Conservatives in 2013.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

From time to time the disguised funding scheme would be tweaked to "assist with continued concealment" and "reduce the likelihood of difficult questions being asked".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The under-fire Sanchez was scheduled to visit a social housing scheme in Barcelona on Monday afternoon.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

For decades before the Mona Lisa theft, he’d been suspected of every con, every forgery, every eccentric scheme: if the job was brilliant, it might be the work of Adam Worth.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

One of the more than 60 reported victims of Daejon Love’s alleged schemes alerted the 49ers eight months before he was arrested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The Journal published an investigation last year reporting that the two men were officers of Epstein entities that obscured transactions, arranged cash for Epstein, made payments to women and facilitated Epstein’s immigration schemes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The SFI scheme is vital for many farmers who have turned large swathes of their land over to nature-friendly schemes, such as planting hedges, creating wildflower margins and protecting the soil.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

EU countries offer VAT refunds for non-EU visitors, while other European countries such as Switzerland have similar schemes.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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

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

So it should come as no surprise that before his 10-year run as UCLA’s basketball coach ended in 2013, Howland had schemed for his dream retirement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025

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

In Leon’s life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

"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

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

There unfolds a somewhat Wodehousian investigation involving undercover spies and scheming holdovers from Oswald Mosley’s disgraced fascist party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

“Gee, thanks,” I said dryly, half flattered he thought I was capable of that level of scheming.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken