gambit
Example Sentences
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The gambit of “Slanted” hinges on the audience accepting that Joan is still the same person when Chen hands her off to Grace midway through the film.
From Los Angeles Times
His gambit is that oil importers will pay sky-high rates to an owner willing to get crude out of the war zone.
He has only given you that $1,000 as an opening gambit, and now he wants something from you, but he is too Machiavellian to ask for it outright.
From MarketWatch
Both gambits are aimed at heading off a possible U.S. strike.
Founded in 2002, SpaceX was Musk’s gambit to reignite the space industry that lost its luster after the Cold War wound down.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
