stratagem

Example Sentences

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That’s the unfortunate stratagem Katy Perry resorts to at the end of her new album, “143,” in a groaner of a closer called “Wonder” that features a guest turn by the singer’s 4-year-old daughter, Daisy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

In this case, the shrinkflation stratagem serves a second purpose by seemingly responding to rising childhood obesity rates.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

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

She thinks he’s married, which he doesn’t know, misunderstanding being a routine Astaire and Rogers stratagem, but she’s as drawn to him as he is to her.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2020

It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fight-ing on Jones’s side.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell