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schemer

noun

Definition of schemer

as in conspirator

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Recent Examples of schemer Editor’s pick More picks How a bootlegging schemer launched the tiki movement from his tiny Hollywood bar. — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Matt Damon plays Odysseus as a gruff, practical tactician, rather than an energetically inventive and morally dubious schemer. — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 The Intrigue, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (July 14) Advertisement For a handsome schemer in Mexico during the 1940s, love and longing may be the best way to an income. — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026 The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China. — Marcus Lim, Variety, 18 June 2026 Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026 Mike McDaniel is the exact schemer and play caller who can maximize this skill set, though. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026 Thomas Jefferson, the great hero of the Declaration of Independence, is shown as hypocritical, cowardly, manipulative, a schemer of every kind. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026 The standout is Jack Davenport, playing Soames’ father James as a shameless schemer, bent on frustrating his brother’s side of the family by any means necessary. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026

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Investigators allege that Bridle and his co-conspirators billed the homeowner over $900,000 for renovations to her 988‑square‑foot residence.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
In March, a co-conspirator allegedly told a Malaysian official that the 27 servers had reached a Chinese buyer.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of conspirator

Noun

Then in the 1980s, vinyl plotters came on the market, and people started using those machines to cut out letters for signs.

— Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026
The plotters behind the coup had rolled tanks down the main streets, parking them at strategic locations all over the city.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

Definition of plotter

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Abraham and Szor, both Israeli filmmakers, have been denounced as traitors in Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has threatened to revoke their citizenship.

— Justin Chang, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
Over in Norway, drama series Rinnan, about the infamous Norwegian traitor and Gestapo agent Henry Rinnan, is also set to launch.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of traitor

Noun

Dillman and his coconspirator used the funds to pay themselves and to make risky and speculative investments in other cryptocurrency ventures, authorities said, citing other evidence presented at the trial.

— Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Others were lured by his girlfriend and coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, or by other young girls like themselves, who were paid by Epstein to recruit them.

— Abby Ellin, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026

Definition of coconspirator

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