strategem

Example Sentences

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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

Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem.

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 Jókai, Mór