stratagems

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Dr. Timothy Pylko, a psychiatrist who has worked with Lucas, described some stratagems that interventionists use to persuade people with mental illness to accept treatment as “theater.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Western governments should intensify their scrutiny of such stratagems and penalize them where possible.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023

Indeed, one of the play’s cagey stratagems reduces the father further, to a piece of furniture: an empty recliner with a blue-check blanket, which Louis, now 29, occasionally talks to or curls up in.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

Also, raptors can’t read, so I am not overly concerned about them finding this post and discovering my brilliant stratagems ahead of time.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

Think: we were there nine years, and we tried everything, all stratagems against them, up to the bitter end that Zeus begrudged us.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer