scheme
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Prosecutors are investigating whether the incident was part of an insider-trading scheme, naming Milei as a person of interest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The Republic of Ireland does not have a direct travel fund for children with cancer, but financial support is available through the Irish Cancer Society's Travel2Care scheme.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Once Hana gets involved in her illicit money-making scheme, the narrative changes gear, tension levels are cranked up and what started out as a straightforward study of friendship turns into a fast-paced story of survival.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The report calls for "urgent" reform of that scheme saying that it is "not sufficiently supportive".
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
A grandson could be born with his grandmother’s nose or her skin color, without that feature being visible in either parent—a phenomenon virtually impossible to explain in terms of Pythagoras’s scheme of purely patrilineal heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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