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
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
Today’s autocrats are savvy, with new stratagems fit for a world upended by technological change.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 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
I followed Hanover Street to Dock Square, musing upon stratagems.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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