strategem

NOUN

trick

Synonyms

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

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

I tried him on all the points of the compass of strategem, but he was a Staten Islander, and I failed satisfactorily to inoculate him with my histrionic eloquence.

From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard

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