stratagem

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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

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

This last extraordinary stratagem leads to months in which Jones, maniacally insisting that he has become a Turk, scribbles anti-British treatises, while an almost robotic Hill spends all his time fasting and reading the Bible.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 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

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