stratagems

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There are discussions among the monsters about feelings and how it’s OK to have them, even the sad and bad ones, along with some simple stratagems for dealing with them.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

Indeed, one of the play’s cagey stratagems reduces the father further, to a piece of furniture: an empty recliner with a blue-check blanket, which Louis, now 29, occasionally talks to or curls up in.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

Today’s autocrats are savvy, with new stratagems fit for a world upended by technological change.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Also, raptors can’t read, so I am not overly concerned about them finding this post and discovering my brilliant stratagems ahead of time.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

And even if the Sapiens lost the first round, they could quickly invent new stratagems that would enable them to win the next time.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari