stratagem

Example Sentences

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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

This is a familiar stratagem aimed at making it uneconomic to bring so-called tort lawsuits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2020

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

Nor is the climactic battle scene that will hinge on a one-chance-in-a-million stratagem.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019

There was no stratagem that he was not equal to, no danger that he could not foresee.

From "1984" by George Orwell