stratagem
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That’s the unfortunate stratagem Katy Perry resorts to at the end of her new album, “143,” in a groaner of a closer called “Wonder” that features a guest turn by the singer’s 4-year-old daughter, Daisy.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 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
More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing stratagem
Grade 9, List 3
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