subterfuge

Example Sentences

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As the blunt but sweet small-town police chief, Marge Gunderson, McDormand shows up only when the audience is up to their eyeballs in snowy subterfuge.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

And—circling back to “Slater the Traitor”—industrial espionage is also proliferating, as individuals and nations look to gain through subterfuge.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

“The Baron of Wall Street” proclaims that Dillon—not alone in his era—enriched himself through “chicanery, subterfuge, and graft.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

“There’s a little bit of subterfuge or trickery going on.”

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2025

Here, there’s not even the subterfuge of such a possibility.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland