ruse

Like any cheap knock-off, with Vance the ruse becomes clear at even a cursory examination.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

I recently wrote about the elaborate ruse one daughter created to get her parents, who showed signs of dementia and self-neglect, out of their home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

US media and devoted fans have acknowledged that the permit, hotels and apparent preparation could still be part of an elaborate ruse, a decoy event so Swift and Kelce have privacy during their actual wedding.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

But she’s also drawing our attention to the whole ruse here.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

He might see through the ruse and refuse to leave the house.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Gould used all of them against Vanderbilt, employing various ruses to issue massive amounts of new stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The specific issue with the windbreakers was that ICE agents were engaging in various ruses to get people to open the door.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2025

He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

In his final mission, Mr. Bluestein said, the ruses devised by the roughly 360 soldiers of his battalion forced German commanders to spread their defenses thin in eastern France.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Others, clinging still to that brief glimpse of post-Civil War freedom, employed a thousand ruses and stratagems of struggle to win their rights.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright