stratagem

Example Sentences

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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

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

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