scheme
noun
a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
is scheming
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present progressiveof scheme (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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That might just be gamesmanship for McVay, whose staff is scheming against Packers coach Matt LaFleur, a former Rams assistant who is the brother of Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
He was also thinking about James’s novel “The Aspern Papers,” which is narrated by a man who is scheming to get the correspondence of a famous dead poet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
"It's not that the faculty suspect the administration is scheming or duplicitous in any way," said Flagler history professor Michael Butler, director of the school's African American studies program.
From Salon ● May 31, 2022
Yet Hopcroft is scheming to get special permission for a much-reduced cruise before mid-May.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2020
“We see King Francis...we watch him...he is eaten up with regrets...he is scheming, plotting...worrying...battlefields gnaw his guts...if we want sanity there are Vaprios, little rivers, little hills.”
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
