scheme
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The scheme include a revamp of the athletics stadium, indoor arena, and swimming and diving facilities.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It says in its official announcement that the scheme will generate a “recurring revenue stream” and it expects the sales “to become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In “Yellow Pine,” Rose’s conviction that she should get pregnant grows to a point where she comes up with a wild scheme to make that happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It had to be 3 in the morning, those were the days of those crazy hours,” Witkoff testified at Trump’s 2023 New York civil trial for a decadeslong scheme of lying about his property values.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
In 1703 Newton became President of the Royal Society and drew up a scheme to define its goals.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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She would also like Burnham to go beyond cheaper energy bills and look to fund free or affordable activities for children in low-income families, such as youth clubs, holiday schemes and sports camps.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Fraudsters can be in search of higher pay from padded credentials or may have more sophisticated schemes in mind, like gaining access to company data.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
For them, nuclear families in general, and fathers in particular, were an obstacle to central planning schemes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
"Our energy workers have managed to reconnect power via backup schemes to almost all facilities, and electricity has been restored to most residential buildings in Sevastopol," Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram hours after the attack.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Nansi was one of her favorite story topics—she’d tell me about the trickster god cutting deals, bending the rules, and weaving schemes as intricate as a spiderweb between tree branches.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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He schemed to get an imported copy seized by customs to trigger a court case over its content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
So it should come as no surprise that before his 10-year run as UCLA’s basketball coach ended in 2013, Howland had schemed for his dream retirement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025
Afforded extra space by his manager's decision to play Jack Grealish alongside him in a central position, De Bruyne schemed in the way he usually does.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024
City-states, hoping to win civic glory, sometimes schemed to bribe top athletes to falsely claim that city as their own.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
For the next five years, Blake schemed a way to escape the high walls and drab food of "the Scrubs," as it was called by the inmates.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Scenes flesh out a lineup of predatory city characters, from an obsessive building superintendent to a scheming nightclub impresario.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Spaeny and Melton were cast as Ashley and Austin, a Gen-Z couple working at a Montecito country club, dreaming and scheming toward upward mobility, a good 18 months before filming began in early 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
A year ago her predecessor, Peter Kyle, unveiled a set of government tools powered by AI, named "Humphrey" after the scheming official from the classic BBC sitcom Yes, Minister.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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
All of the adults hunkered on the vessel, calculating their scavenge and scheming how to ensure their claim.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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