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strategem

NOUN
trick
Synonyms
WEAK
action angle artifice bit booby trap brainchild con deception device dodge feint gambit game game plan gimmick grift intrigue layout maneuver method pitch plan play plot ploy pretext proposition racket ruse scenario scene scheme setup shift slant stall story subterfuge switch twist wile

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

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

Men are not easily taken by frontal assault; it is only strategem that can quickly knock them down.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)