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subterfuge

noun as in deception

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Using that intelligence, plus a little subterfuge, security passes can be copied, and the Red Team can enter the premises posing as an employee.

From BBC

The evidence that fossil fuel companies have been working behind the scenes to delay the transition to renewable energy, including spreading false stories about electric vehicles, is just the latest example of their subterfuge.

From Salon

On TV, as in life, it’s a full-contact sport that requires subterfuge and constant toggling between public and private identities.

It is changed, kicking and screaming, through subterfuge and sabotage and sometimes by force.

Those subterfuges in the United States, it turned out, were only a prelude to a more prominent and potentially more ominous campaign of deception he has been conducting from Russia.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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