ploy
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As a marketing ploy, that’s smart, but it’s not entirely honest.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
His latest ploy could work – but only if voters believe he is serious about writing them a cheque.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Then again, the ploy worked for only a little while.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
He warned the White House that the whole ploy wouldn’t work: Small-business owners wouldn’t voluntarily forgo price increases because their margins were too thin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"It was a publicity ploy by Ashland Avenue, apparently," she says.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
But if you’re older and your baseline anxiety and stress level is already high, you’re more apt to react emotionally to fraudsters’ ploys.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Their poverty, the fruit of Salieri’s malicious ploys, tests the limits of their endurance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
In one group, his ploys were so successful that he became the militia’s top commander in the state of Utah.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 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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