schemed (out)

verb

past tense of scheme (out)
as in planned
to work out the details of (something) in advance the campaign operatives schemed out a plan for dealing with bombshells about the candidate's past indiscretions

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schemed (out)
  1. planned
  2. designed
  3. prepared
  4. organized
  5. arranged
  6. calculated
  7. plotted
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  • The Cinderella dress that Kaitlyn Argyriou’s mother had sewn for her as a child and which Argyriou’s daughter, Avery, 4, had planned to wear trick-or-treating in Colorado Springs on Halloween.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The production planned to grab exterior footage outside Broadway’s Music Box Theatre — the film’s principal location — before a New York City blizzard intervened.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of planned
Verb
  • The company also says the platform is designed to accommodate future battery technology, potentially allowing newer packs to be used with the existing motorcycle.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
  • My actual wedding dress was designed with the Manolo Camparinew Satin Mary Janes in mind.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of designed
Verb
  • As deputies prepared to have the vehicle towed, one found a small black pouch containing passports and a Social Security card.
    — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Part of our responsibility as leaders of the club is to be prepared.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of prepared
Verb
  • Many of them traveled to Orlando for a workout-and-hang Hurts organized over the summer.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Kids of mixed ages organized their own games and made up their own rules, while adults stayed mostly on the sidelines or stayed away entirely.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of organized
Verb
  • Dogan deliberately arranged for Salah’s medical to take place in the metropolis of Istanbul, over 500 miles (nearly 900km) from Trabzon, so the Egyptian could see how frenzied the welcome would be.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • On Sunday, the Lime Rock Concours and Gathering of the Marques display nearly 1,000 enthusiast cars and motorcycles arranged around the Lime Rock circuit.
    — Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of arranged
Verb
  • The exact reason is still unclear, but Kostrna’s team suspects the issue may stem from how each device’s algorithms are calculated.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2026
  • But as temperatures calculated by the device rise, different protocols are enacted, such as removing shoulder pads, increasing length of breaks or canceling conditioning.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of calculated
Verb
  • During the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI agents autonomously plotted a digital heist that went undetected for more than a week, intensifying concerns OpenAI is sacrificing safety to push the AI frontier.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Emily’s misguided research ultimately proves that love stories can’t be plotted and graphed like science experiments; more modern studio romantic comedies could stand to learn the same lesson.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of plotted
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