scheme
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Since 2024 children in four primary schools have been able to get apples, bananas and other fruit as part of the pilot scheme.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The report called for "urgent" reform of the scheme, saying that it is "not sufficiently supportive".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Skates said he wanted to know from the Welsh government what the status was now of the protected route for the relief road - which was ditched after the scheme was axed.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Ministers say they will ensure the scheme is working properly.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
They had the essential feature of a Ponzi scheme: To maintain the fiction that they were profitable enterprises, they needed more and more capital to create more and more subprime loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Croick and Dieffenbach worked via Zoom to study schemes, installations and the skills it took to play under center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
While private prescriptions for Wegovey and Mounjaro have soared, fewer than half of Scotland's health boards currently offer the treatment specifically for weight loss - and then only as part of small pilot schemes.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
In one example, an unnamed customer was repeatedly connected to fraud schemes and high-risk international payments wires that were being investigated by law enforcement, resulting in more than 100 compliance cases, the filing said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"There's no simple 'with AI' or 'without AI'," he said at the book fair, adding that basic schemes to categorise how much AI was used to produce a title could fall short.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
They know what to expect from Ms. G and all her crazy writing schemes.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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The company discovered in July that rogue AI agents had schemed in secret to break out of the virtual sandbox created to contain them, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
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
Last time they had schemed like that, they covered his seat with clear glue and Danny got stuck to his chair.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Of the four-person ensemble, I was most intrigued by Rachna Khatau, the wild card of the group whose roles are the most slyly scheming and unpredictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
"I know what I did, I know what we did, and I know how it happened. It didn't feel like we were scheming or plotting."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
It could be argued Tielemans' arrival addresses an issue Manchester United have had since Carrick quit in 2018; the scheming midfielder with an eye for a pass, who can break a defensive line.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ms. Aviv writes of a psychotic mother with persecutory delusions who thinks her eldest daughter is in league with a scheming professor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The scheming look actually made Hanako a little nervous.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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