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

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

If we look at the science—the psychographic segmentation, the influence stratagems that will lead a person to make a decision and the mapping of that—we’ve now transcended what’s possible in that feedback loop.

From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2022

Lot’s slowly approaching army was so much more numerous than the King’s forces that it had been necessary to resort to stratagems.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White