scheme
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This fits the Declaration into Jefferson’s generational scheme, and it rings true for his and Congress’s priorities in the summer of 1776.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
We turned elsewhere to see what all of this meant in the grand scheme of things.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
The scheme stretched from 1992 to 2003, and involved numerous unknowing clients including Murrin, Southern District of New York prosecutors said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026
Federal prosecutors charged Jason Finkelstein, a board-certified cardiologist, with an alleged $89 million cardiovascular testing scheme.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
They had the essential feature of a Ponzi scheme: To maintain the fiction that they were profitable enterprises, they needed more and more capital to create more and more subprime loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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