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Recent Examples of schemer
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein’s latest collaboration is a spiritual sequel to their 2019 masterpiece, once again putting an undeniably charming schemer through a nightmarish gauntlet of trials and tribulations to chase an impossible dream.
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Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
In various shadows of the things that have been, Chris Hoch plays young Ebenezer’s father as an abusive drunk, a schemer who saddled the family with debt.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
His second administration isn't a story about how dirty trails all lead up to one grand schemer, but rather that there’s no scheme at all.
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Taylor Momsen, who played the social-climbing schemer across the first four seasons of the teen drama, recently divulged the details of her abrupt exit from the show.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schemer
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Travel and shipping records showed that the co-conspirators would facilitate a shipment to Haiti shortly after purchasing a large number of firearms, then would travel to Haiti around the time the shipment was scheduled to arrive in Haiti.—
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The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.—
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Africa’s coup wave The case of the Free Officers Movement shows that plotters wait for clear signals that a coup is worth the risk.—
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Turning Stauffenberg, Henning von Tresckow and the other plotters from traitors (a word Trump used for the six senators) to heroes required a huge rethink of war, morality and law, not just in Germany but in the world.—
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Hemphill spoke alongside former Capitol police officer Winston Pingeon, who described being punched in the face, pepper sprayed, and called a traitor by the rioters.—
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The J6ers were not insurrectionists, traitors, and miscreants but patriots, heroes, and innocents.—
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Trump last week directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to request the release of grand jury testimonies from Epstein and his coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.—
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Hecker’s questions probed the extent of Joseph’s diligence when conducting interviews of the coconspirators.—
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“Schemer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schemer. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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