stratagems

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Dr. Timothy Pylko, a psychiatrist who has worked with Lucas, described some stratagems that interventionists use to persuade people with mental illness to accept treatment as “theater.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Today’s autocrats are savvy, with new stratagems fit for a world upended by technological change.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Also, raptors can’t read, so I am not overly concerned about them finding this post and discovering my brilliant stratagems ahead of time.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

If we look at the science—the psychographic segmentation, the influence stratagems that will lead a person to make a decision and the mapping of that—we’ve now transcended what’s possible in that feedback loop.

From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2022

Think: we were there nine years, and we tried everything, all stratagems against them, up to the bitter end that Zeus begrudged us.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer