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scheming

[skee-ming] / ˈski mɪŋ /


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She played the scheming, seductive Iris in the 1970 blaxploitation comedy classic “Cotton Comes to Harlem.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

“So now it looks like I had been kind of scheming and forcing this to happen,” Adkins said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Meng, who had initially been charged with scheming to evade US sanctions on Iran, was freed in September 2021.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Their closeness derails Rausch’s “three steps ahead” scheming.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

She watched the cheating husbands and scheming wives as faithfully as ever, but she didn’t reprimand them anymore, as if she’d given up correcting the errors of the world.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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