Examples of ploy in a Sentence
Her story about being sick is only a ploy to get you to give her money.
asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party
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But that sort of ploy has played out all across college football, including at USC.
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Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
My next ploy will be to have generative AI take a proper psychological passage and convert it into psychobabble.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
After so many years of going along with Matt’s ploys, Jay is ready to go solo.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
And Gabriel Macht and Rick Hoffman on Suits LA is more of a curiosity ploy than a long-term maneuver.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
My next ploy will be to have generative AI take a proper psychological passage and convert it into psychobabble.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
After so many years of going along with Matt’s ploys, Jay is ready to go solo.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
And Gabriel Macht and Rick Hoffman on Suits LA is more of a curiosity ploy than a long-term maneuver.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Ploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploy. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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