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stratagem

[strat-uh-juhm] / ˈstræt ə dʒəm /


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It’s frankly difficult to see Sotomayor, an independent-minded and principled jurist, buying into this stratagem if she got nothing out of it.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 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

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

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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