stratagems

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Dr. Timothy Pylko, a psychiatrist who has worked with Lucas, described some stratagems that interventionists use to persuade people with mental illness to accept treatment as “theater.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Indeed, one of the play’s cagey stratagems reduces the father further, to a piece of furniture: an empty recliner with a blue-check blanket, which Louis, now 29, occasionally talks to or curls up in.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

Today’s autocrats are savvy, with new stratagems fit for a world upended by technological change.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Also, raptors can’t read, so I am not overly concerned about them finding this post and discovering my brilliant stratagems ahead of time.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

Lot’s slowly approaching army was so much more numerous than the King’s forces that it had been necessary to resort to stratagems.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White