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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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The ploy worked—Shaboozey was featured on two songs on Beyoncé’s chart-topping Cowboy Carter album.
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Zoya Hasan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The bond manager believes the Rassemblement National is hoping to use the vote of no-confidence as a negotiating ploy to extract further concessions from Barnier’s budget and water down social welfare cuts.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024
Some would-be trappers started to leave saucers of whiskey in the nearby woods, hoping that drunk monkeys would be easier to capture—and, supposedly, the ploy worked.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
For all City’s inadequacies, Ange Postecoglou’s positional ploy was a masterstroke, with Kulusevski surprisingly moved out wide and Maddison brought in to exploit the gaps that were forged by the runs of team-mates.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Zoya Hasan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The bond manager believes the Rassemblement National is hoping to use the vote of no-confidence as a negotiating ploy to extract further concessions from Barnier’s budget and water down social welfare cuts.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024
Some would-be trappers started to leave saucers of whiskey in the nearby woods, hoping that drunk monkeys would be easier to capture—and, supposedly, the ploy worked.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
For all City’s inadequacies, Ange Postecoglou’s positional ploy was a masterstroke, with Kulusevski surprisingly moved out wide and Maddison brought in to exploit the gaps that were forged by the runs of team-mates.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Ploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploy. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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ploy
noun
: a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
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