strategem
Example Sentences
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Enormously successful at first, this strategem had a fatal flaw.
From Salon ● May 8, 2016
Remarkably, a politician known for his caution has now bet his career, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance, on the same strategem.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2015
Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a cowardly strategem, for they knew that the two could not fight with the girl between them and their adversaries.
From The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs
