ruses
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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
It was a military intervention unacknowledged by Moscow, shrouded in a fog of ruses and denials so improbable that few were deceived.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Others, clinging still to that brief glimpse of post-Civil War freedom, employed a thousand ruses and stratagems of struggle to win their rights.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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