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Six example sentences with stratagem, each labelled with its topic.
Her favorite stratagem is offering an early alliance she never intends to honor, which wins her most tabletop nights.
Gaming
Fouling the weakest free-throw shooter is an old stratagem, ugly to watch but sometimes the only route back.
Basketball
Asking a question you already know the answer to is a cross-examiner's stratagem for testing whether the witness lies.
Law
Her favorite negotiating stratagem is to go silent after naming a price, letting the other side fill the pause with concessions.
Business
Socrates' stratagem of claiming to know nothing lured each partner into offering a definition he could then dismantle.
Philosophy
Interviewers use a simple stratagem, repeating a subject's last three words so the person keeps talking without a question.
Psychology
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