stratagem
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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
And if “Station Eleven” relies a little much on coincidence, the Bard of Avon was no stranger to that stratagem.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 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
Nor is the climactic battle scene that will hinge on a one-chance-in-a-million stratagem.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019
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
Vocabulary lists containing stratagem
Grade 9, List 3
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