ploy
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Then again, the ploy worked for only a little while.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
New Zealand are the latest opponents to pressure Root - and Harry Brook - with the wicketkeeper standing up to the stumps to seamers and the ploy worked again.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Others have suggested that Anthropic’s warnings about the dangerous potential of its own tools could also be considered a marketing ploy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Or were their outrageous takes simply a ploy to boost ratings?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
I could tell we were thinking the same thing: What if the Princess Andromeda was a ploy?
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
All were ploys with more moving parts and increased risk of going wrong.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Their poverty, the fruit of Salieri’s malicious ploys, tests the limits of their endurance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
That stunt is also one of TV’s grandest examples of why such ploys can backfire.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
“No,” she agrees, and for this moment at least we are cronies, this could be a kitchen table, it could be a date we’re discussing, some girlish stratagem of ploys and flirtation.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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