ruse
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“This is an elaborate, well thought-out ruse which totally jammed my radar,” Taylor wrote, noting the caller’s attention to detail, including “real cop-speak.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Like any cheap knock-off, with Vance the ruse becomes clear at even a cursory examination.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
US media and devoted fans have acknowledged that the permit, hotels and apparent preparation could still be part of an elaborate ruse, a decoy event so Swift and Kelce have privacy during their actual wedding.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But she’s also drawing our attention to the whole ruse here.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
His elaborate ruse worked, even though Washington was certainly breaking the letter of the law.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
He and his team used ruses to try to talk to the franchisee or serve legal papers, including appearing in a fake UPS cap, posing as a Mormon and wearing a wig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The specific issue with the windbreakers was that ICE agents were engaging in various ruses to get people to open the door.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2025
He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
It was a military intervention unacknowledged by Moscow, shrouded in a fog of ruses and denials so improbable that few were deceived.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Others, clinging still to that brief glimpse of post-Civil War freedom, employed a thousand ruses and stratagems of struggle to win their rights.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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