stratagem
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What’s more, the titular witch’s mouth, a trick designed to expose a traitor, plays a critical role toward the end but is clouded somewhat by yet another stratagem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
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
This is a familiar stratagem aimed at making it uneconomic to bring so-called tort lawsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
“No,” she agrees, and for this moment at least we are cronies, this could be a kitchen table, it could be a date we’re discussing, some girlish stratagem of ploys and flirtation.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Grade 9, List 3
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