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scheme

[skeem] / skim /




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Work to convert the old railway line began in 2024 with funding from a wider pot of £3.8m from the UK government’s Levelling Up scheme.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

In a case still winding through court, federal officials allege the men spent nearly 10 years manufacturing false crime reports as part of a visa-fraud scheme.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Federal officials allege a visa-fraud scheme in Louisiana involved law enforcement manufacturing false crime reports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The 19-page document, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, provided details about Amazon’s alleged price-fixing scheme, largely derived from emails between Amazon and the vendors who sell products on its site.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Their conceptual apparatus is Aristotelian, and they seek to address a gap or anomaly in the Aristotelian scheme of knowledge.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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