Trojan horse
Example Sentences
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Müller compares the concept to a "Trojan horse": the incretin component opens the door, and the additional drug acts only after entering the cell.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
VCRs were a Trojan horse in the American home that kicked off a rebellion against the centralized entertainment of the big three networks and movie-theater chains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
The contestants were challenged to pull a giant Trojan horse up a hill and through a series of gates that each required a special code, before eventually setting the horse alight.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
The key to that was making it about this community, but it was a bit of a Trojan horse.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
Once the all-purpose solution, Washington was now the still-potent problem, a kind of Trojan horse planted squarely in the Virginia fortress.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
