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

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

The strategem did not please the big crowd in the opera house.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Cyrus, employing a strategem whereby this cavalry was rendered unavailable, placed in front of his line the baggage camels, which the Lydian horses could not endure either to smell or to behold.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John