ploy

For Trump’s critics, his selections make it clear that his disavowal of the conservative playbook was nothing more than a campaign ploy to pacify voters who viewed the plan as too far to the right.

White writes that ABC assumed his family was pulling a ”sick-out,” a common ploy used by parents of child stars angling for more money.

“If you think this bill is about protecting women and not simply a ploy to get on Fox News, you've been fooled,” she wrote.

Now, federal labor regulators say the company’s back-to-office order was an unlawful ploy to retaliate against the workers’ union organizing efforts.

Brighton’s strategy of attacking City’s right flank looked like a deliberate ploy, with 44.9% of their attacks targeting that wing as opposed to 26.9% on the left.