stratagem
Example Sentences
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Will Toranaga let his old friend kill himself in order to perpetuate what might be a carefully constructed stratagem?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 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
He’s guilty, he admits, even if he was a junior partner in a stratagem he dimly understood.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2020
The result of this new determination and new vision was the stratagem of the wooden horse.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing stratagem
Grade 9, List 3
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The Hobbit
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