stratagem
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Will Toranaga let his old friend kill himself in order to perpetuate what might be a carefully constructed stratagem?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
We’ll know more about whether the stratagem accomplished anything when the preliminary injunction case goes to a hearing in December.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2022
She thinks he’s married, which he doesn’t know, misunderstanding being a routine Astaire and Rogers stratagem, but she’s as drawn to him as he is to her.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Another case, he said, involved the time-honored stratagem of getting the right jury and a twist on a line from the English poet Alexander Pope, “Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019
It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fight-ing on Jones’s side.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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