strategem
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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
From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, then, was the strategem by which he proposed to learn the name which no one yet had been able to decipher on the count's letters?
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
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