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ploy

[ploi] / plɔɪ /


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Or were their outrageous takes simply a ploy to boost ratings?

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

“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

It was clearly a rehearsed training ground ploy, although Slegers gave little away.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

This loan-blocking exercise may be a shakedown ploy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He’d convinced himself this was part of some ploy, some trickery or treachery with Strange at its center, but suddenly he wasn’t sure.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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