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

It’s frankly difficult to see Sotomayor, an independent-minded and principled jurist, buying into this stratagem if she got nothing out of it.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 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

Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller