stratagem
Example Sentences
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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
Critics called this stratagem “greenmail” and condemned it for ignoring the interests of employees, customers and management.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2019
Abolitionist lawyers erected barricades of paperwork, every week a new stratagem.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing stratagem
Grade 9, List 3
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