ruse
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Like any cheap knock-off, with Vance the ruse becomes clear at even a cursory examination.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
But she’s also drawing our attention to the whole ruse here.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Thaksin was jailed last September, after the Supreme Court ruled that the six months he spent in a police hospital after his return to Thailand had been a ruse to avoid serving his sentence.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Russell figured out the ruse after reading a warning on the Blizzard website, which said authorized recruiters would use only certain email extensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The ruse that will get him in the door is a fake bottle of medication, which Powell will claim was sent by Seward’s physician.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
Gould used all of them against Vanderbilt, employing various ruses to issue massive amounts of new stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The specific issue with the windbreakers was that ICE agents were engaging in various ruses to get people to open the door.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2025
He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
And while he called the debate over interrogation methods a “complex question,” he said he remains convinced “that there’s a point in time to use ruses in interrogation techniques.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
Desdemona had to devise elaborate ruses to satisfy him, telling him that our kitchen was the Zebra Room, only redecorated, and lamenting at how bad business was.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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