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strategem

NOUN

trick

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WEAK

action angle artifice bit booby trap brainchild con deception device dodge feint gambit game game plan gimmick grift intrigue layout maneuver method pitch plan play plot ploy pretext proposition racket ruse scenario scene scheme setup shift slant stall story subterfuge switch twist wile

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A strategem planned by Hermocrates and Nicias' superstitious terrors delayed the departure long enough to enable the Syracusans to secure the passes in the interior.

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb

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