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Within days of the interview, which was perceived in part as a ploy for clemency by Maxwell, she was moved to a minimum-security camp in Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

"It has never been a marketing ploy for me... but I never had any idea how much it would facilitate our business," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

As it turns out, that was exactly what made “One Mike” such a useful ploy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

This tariff-dividend ploy suffers from fanciful math, shoddy economics and — not least — considerable legal obstacles.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025

It is a standard ploy of opponents of relativism to argue that we all share certain commonsensical capacities for reasoning, and thus we can all recognize better knowledge when we see it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton