scheme
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In 2024, Earthmade received more than $176 million from two Malaysia-based shipment companies as part of the scheme, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The commission found City had arranged "sham" commercial deals with a number of its sponsors that were part of a "disguised funding scheme".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
It also sets up a scheme by which the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate pollution emitted in one state that harms downwind states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
On Thursday, hundreds of prisoners will walk free from prison as part of the government's expanded early release scheme to free up capacity in overcrowded prisons across the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Grace, Jake, and Kojo worked out an elaborate scheme for not being at their own homes on Tuesday night.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
It gives money to farmers who have turned parts of their land over to schemes such as planting hedges, creating wildflower margins and protecting the soil.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Government projections indicate the prison population will still rise to around 100,000 by the end of the decade despite early release schemes.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Since then many more women have come forward to say they were victims of Love’s schemes, which often involved him impersonating a San Francisco 49ers player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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
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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
Murdaugh introduced Satterfield’s sons to Cory Fleming, a fellow lawyer, who represented them in the case and schemed with Murdaugh to collect on his homeowner’s insurance policies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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
As for Penelope, she had found the whole business utterly exhausting, but she was glad of the outcome, for of course it was precisely what she had hoped and schemed for.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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"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
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
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
Deluded self-mythologizing was at the core of Johnson’s mockumentary series “Nirvanna the Band the Show” and well-regarded movie expansion about two musicians perpetually scheming to perform at Toronto’s Rivoli club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
It would take only a word to the guards for Matthias to put an end to all their scheming.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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