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Musk’s presence, and the sketches that followed, were part of a cynical ploy to boost the show’s pop culture capital within an entertainment landscape that has largely passed it by.

This is easily dismissed as a cynical marketing ploy, so you’ll need to follow through on your promise.

Is this just a ploy by the Islamic State—or the beginning of the road to retaking Mosul?

The head of the prison says Figueroa fabricated the story as a ploy to get the Dutchman transferred.

Do they really not look around them when they hit the shutter, or is it all part of a ploy to attract more attention?

But when it becomes a transparent ploy for fame it drives fans away.

That brassy ploy had caught the Costa Ricans entirely off-guard and had knocked them off their stride.

And so destroy our only defences; it is, indeed, a wise ploy!

I give you the old word, Elrigmore: 'Claymore and the Gael '; for the rest—pardon me—you gentlemen are out of the ploy.

Na, na—his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy—it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.

I don't think he went on to describe any—it was mostly a ploy on my part to curry him or make him feel more at ease.

There is a misprint of 'employ' in Thomas Davies' edition, as before.