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gambit

noun as in plan, plot

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Regular visitors to local art spaces will recognize some artists’ familiar gambits in new editions.

It’s a calculated gambit, primed to prod advertisers into thinking they’re missing out on the next big thing in social media.

From Digiday

Charles Schwab’s namesake brokerage, which slashed brokerage commissions in the 1970s, had a similar marketing gambit.

From Quartz

I guess Falwell folded on that gambit when he realized, as I’ve said here many a time, video is forever.

From Ozy

As publishers look for pockets of audience engagement wherever they can find them, limited-run educational newsletters are a gambit gaining some traction.

From Digiday

This gambit means Aereo is avoiding paying anything to broadcasters or the middlemen it is replacing.

For these other news organizations, their hunt for the ex-prisoners was a multi-thousand dollar high-risk gambit.

How did you arrive at him as your Gambit, and why did you decide to move away from Taylor Kitsch?

Jensen is in a different political place than Grimes, and her more aggressive stance may indeed be a savvy strategic gambit.

One gambit is to require photo identification, a reasonable-sounding provision that 34 states have now adopted.

Whatever kind of gambit is being played here, it is bigger than any of its parts or pieces.

When the rolling was very bad, Mrs. Gambit clutched me with one hand and her right hand neighbour with the other.

Nor could I understand why Mrs. Gambit spoke scornfully of this act of kindness, which was entirely unexpected by me.

Supper ended, Mr. Gambit lit a pipe of tobacco and began to smoke, begging me not to mind him.

When he had finished, Mrs. Gambit dropped her chin and returned to practical business.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gambit, such as: artifice, design, device, gimmick, jig, and maneuver.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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