strategem
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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
From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some strategem I shall manage to make him my prisoner.
From Rinkitink in Oz by John R. (John Rea) Neill
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