stratagem
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James McAvoy is photographed performing in The Beaux Stratagem at 1999.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026
Call this the Sloan Stratagem, and I promise not to bill you.
From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2012
Mao was a master of the ancient Empty City Stratagem, which seeks to conceal weakness with a show of confidence, even aggression.
From Newsweek • May 15, 2011
I think, however, that his best movies are The Conformist, The Spider's Stratagem, the first part of 1900, and, with reservations, his version of one of my favourite novels, Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011
Stratagem of the Importunate.—The importunate man gives us gold coins as change for our convention coins, and thereby tries to force us afterwards to treat our convention as an oversight and him as an exception.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Vocabulary lists containing stratagem
Grade 9, List 3
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The Hobbit
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