stratagem

Example Sentences

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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

And if “Station Eleven” relies a little much on coincidence, the Bard of Avon was no stranger to that stratagem.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2021

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

It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fight-ing on Jones’s side.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell