stratagem

Example Sentences

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Will Toranaga let his old friend kill himself in order to perpetuate what might be a carefully constructed stratagem?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

We’ll know more about whether the stratagem accomplished anything when the preliminary injunction case goes to a hearing in December.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2022

More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

He’s guilty, he admits, even if he was a junior partner in a stratagem he dimly understood.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2020

Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller