Thesaurus results for SCHEMES (OUT)

schemes (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of scheme (out)

as in plans

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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The urgency of their push comes as major European companies undergo huge job losses — Volkswagen plans to cut 100,000 workers — which experts have said could drive political upheaval.

— Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The president plans to attend Saturday's big college football matchup between Alabama and Georgia, after attending Texas at Tennessee late last month.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026

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Another option is sale of plant (SOP), where Linde designs and builds the processing plant for customers and sells the equipment.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Safer ship designs A digital twin is a virtual model that mirrors a real-world physical object, system, or process using live data.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

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Ukraine has warned that such a satellite system would prove deadly in the coming winter as Russia prepares its attacks.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
The calls heap pressure on the coalition government to loosen its purse strings, threatening to undermine its reputation for fiscal discipline just as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana prepares to present his three-year fiscal plan later this month.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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The movie charts the evolution of OpenAI and dramatizes the tumultuous time when Altman was controversially fired and then rehired by the AI giant.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
But as the company charts its path forward, its plan to court subscribers might not put so much emphasis on big-name moviemakers.

— Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2026

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