stratagem

Example Sentences

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The competitors are in a trancelike state, building a stratagem.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

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 last extraordinary stratagem leads to months in which Jones, maniacally insisting that he has become a Turk, scribbles anti-British treatises, while an almost robotic Hill spends all his time fasting and reading the Bible.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2021

Abolitionist lawyers erected barricades of paperwork, every week a new stratagem.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead