maneuvers

Example Sentences

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It could engender pride and joy at your stealthy maneuvers, indifference, resentment or using the friendship as collateral for a loan.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

After a series of legal back-and-forth maneuvers, a federal judge has now allowed a jury to hear Musk’s claims.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Yet she’s the one who maneuvers him into a better job, where he accidentally fails upward into more responsibility thanks to his himbo charms.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

“The court answered with a resounding no, dealing a blow to renewed efforts by large corporate taxpayers to use artificial tax maneuvers to shelter their profits.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Billy and Valencia went to sleep nestled like spoons, and Billy traveled in time back to the train ride he had taken in 1944—from maneuvers in South Carolina to his father’s funeral in Ilium.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut