strategem
Example Sentences
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Enormously successful at first, this strategem had a fatal flaw.
From Salon • May 8, 2016
Remarkably, a politician known for his caution has now bet his career, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance, on the same strategem.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2015
Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
The strategem was successful, for at daylight the frigate was pressing hard after the Alfred, while the prizes had disappeared.
From Dewey and Other Naval Commanders by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
