strategem

Example Sentences

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Enormously successful at first, this strategem had a fatal flaw.

From Salon • May 8, 2016

Remarkably, a politician known for his caution has now bet his career, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance, on the same strategem.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2015

Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem.

From Time Magazine Archive

The strategem did not please the big crowd in the opera house.

From Time Magazine Archive

The King's son had, however, used a strategem, and had caused the whole staircase to be smeared with pitch, and there, when she ran down, had the maiden's left slipper remained sticking.

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret