stratagem

Example Sentences

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Will Toranaga let his old friend kill himself in order to perpetuate what might be a carefully constructed stratagem?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

It’s frankly difficult to see Sotomayor, an independent-minded and principled jurist, buying into this stratagem if she got nothing out of it.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2024

We’ll know more about whether the stratagem accomplished anything when the preliminary injunction case goes to a hearing in December.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2022

More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

The result of this new determination and new vision was the stratagem of the wooden horse.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton