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The ploy worked—he promptly was named the king’s astronomer and received a royal stipend—but his colleagues outside of England objected.

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Some brands like puzzle company Blue Kazoo have leaned into the platform as a customer feedback ploy, combing through comments for notes on product improvements and more.

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Perhaps what bothers some people so much about the Kardashians is that their ploys for stardom worked so well.

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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.

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

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Brands like Burger King and KFC are reverting to retro logos in a nostalgia ploy, making you long for a time when your life was simplerWhile loading Burger King’s website, I saw the change firsthand.

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Ten years ago, a desperate Egyptian government, led by then-President Hosni Mubarak, ordered the nation’s Internet to be shut down, a ploy to stymie pro-democracy protests.

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Scholz, the SPD’s chancellor candidate who will attend the meeting, denied that his criticism was a campaign ploy.

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Many of these users are online novices who have become easy victims for new and old ploys alike.

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

LOCHINVARS. R. CROCKETT

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