strategem
Example Sentences
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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
The strategem did not please the big crowd in the opera house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem.
From Time Magazine Archive
He cannot penetrate yonder walls, save by fraud or strategem.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John
