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“I feel like it was a ploy to get his ballroom that he wants, and that’s his reason,” one explained.
From Salon • May 13, 2026
Within days of the interview, which was perceived in part as a ploy for clemency by Maxwell, she was moved to a minimum-security camp in Texas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
This loan-blocking exercise may be a shakedown ploy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Pencilling in perhaps unrealistic future spending plans is a ploy many chancellors have used to make numbers add up.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
Mom and Dad told us how they’d made it to Phoenix only to find that Mom’s laundry-on-the-clothesline ploy hadn’t kept out intruders.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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