scheme
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It included a new licensing scheme and a "fit and proper person" test.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Since 2024 children in four primary schools have been able to get apples, bananas and other fruit as part of the pilot scheme.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
One campaign group has welcomed the recognition that vaccine injury and bereavement is real and that the current scheme is not fit for purpose.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
In its response to the report, the government says, external it is committed to reviewing the scheme to ensure it is "fit for purpose and delivered effectively."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
But two important modifications to this rule were necessary to complete the scheme.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The money will go towards 14 schemes across England, including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and upgrades to emergency departments.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
While private prescriptions for Wegovey and Mounjaro have soared, fewer than half of Scotland's health boards currently offer the treatment specifically for weight loss - and then only as part of small pilot schemes.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
In one example, an unnamed customer was repeatedly connected to fraud schemes and high-risk international payments wires that were being investigated by law enforcement, resulting in more than 100 compliance cases, the filing said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"There's no simple 'with AI' or 'without AI'," he said at the book fair, adding that basic schemes to categorise how much AI was used to produce a title could fall short.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Nansi was one of her favorite story topics—she’d tell me about the trickster god cutting deals, bending the rules, and weaving schemes as intricate as a spiderweb between tree branches.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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
They leaped and schemed escapes, producing doors from air.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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
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
Hardly the smoking gun that puts him in an Afghan cave, scheming with Osama bin Laden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The next exit would take me to the college and, with my luck, I’d run right into my father or one of his scheming grad students.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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