strategem

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Enormously successful at first, this strategem had a fatal flaw.

From Salon • May 8, 2016

Remarkably, a politician known for his caution has now bet his career, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance, on the same strategem.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2015

Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retribution came in its due course, for, having made himself detested by all decent men, many knights and nobles joined against him, and contrived to take him by strategem.

From Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by Presland, John