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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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Grand plans to return to the Premier League under Chansiri around a decade ago had come to nothing, and financial mismanagement soon began a spiral that threatened the club’s existence.

— Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
As Naperville continues to clean up, the city plans to hold a special brush collection starting Monday.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

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Per Promise’s logline, the film follows a young woman who designs AI personalities for a mysterious tech company .

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
Kinsman creates whiskies that may not be bottled for more than a decade, while Newey designs race cars around aerodynamic details that can ultimately determine championships.

— Emily Price, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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Despite his rakish lifestyle, Don Juan falls in love with innocent Adriana, infuriating the envious Lucrezia Borgia (Estelle Taylor), who plots to ruin the young lovers’ nascent romance.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026
Plus, the Office of Science and Technology Policy plots a venture capital-like model for the scientific grant process.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 July 2026

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The arrangement gives Boeing a longer production horizon as the Pentagon prepares to expand interceptor output.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
The cup of joe — and her headful of curls — reflects bigger changes to come as Leavitt, 33, prepares to say goodbye to the Hulu show and step firmly into her next chapter beyond reality TV.

— Lizzie Hyman, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026

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Seen together, the trilogy charts both a personal coming-of-age and a generational coming-to-grips with aging that, even when compared against similar serialized documentary experiments like Michael Apted’s 7 Up installments, feels wholly unique.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2026
The series charts Combs’ rise and fall, including his founding of Big Boy Records in the 90s, which had a fraught rivalry with the label that signed Shakur, Death Row Records.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026

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