scheme
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Black boxes monitor driving habits and can provide a weekly rating graded using a traffic light colour scheme.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Prosecutors say that Williamson, Becerra’s then-chief of staff Sean McCluskie and lobbyist Greg Campbell took part in a scheme to siphon money from Becerra’s dormant campaign account and funnel it to McCluskie.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
The black boxes were designed to track and regularly rate a user's driving habits, such as speed and braking, where repeated poor ratings could have seen drivers removed from the Motability scheme altogether.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
The Pentagon didn’t say how the cuts figured in its larger scheme for defending Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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