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Recent Examples of gamesmanship In Republicans' absence, Democrats passed a slew of legislation, and leaders from both sides of the aisle capped the dramatic day accusing one another of political gamesmanship. Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024 The political machinations on the right and left appear little more than gamesmanship. Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024 Some might suggest that peddling ideas of heroic viticulture is akin to marketing gamesmanship, that the consumer is forced to foot the bill for wines produced too far from the tenets of entrepreneurship and economies of scale. Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 After some gamesmanship from Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins, the NBA retroactively upgraded Draymond Green’s take foul on Zach Edey from Friday night’s game to a Flagrant 1. Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gamesmanship 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamesmanship
Noun
  • Watch on Deadline In the wake of his father’s disappearance at sea, Kojo, a young Ghanaian is drawn into a world of street gang and deception.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Directed by Su Biao, the comedy about a woman entangled in financial deception has remained a steady performer since its release on Dec. 31.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There is a precedent for such scientific subterfuge.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
  • In an era rife with conspiracy theories and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps our imagining?
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • There’s still a lot of baseball chicanery to take place over the next few months, though.
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This would be immediately followed by my dad standing up, racing over to my uncle, and sometimes grabbing him by the collar to stop him from completing an action that in their eyes seemed to be an act of utter betrayal and treachery.
    Wayne Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Welcome back for another season full of [Alan Cumming voice] deception, backstabbing and treachery!
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Calling it his novel is a bit of authorial trickery: Griffin Hurt doesn’t exist.
    Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Obviously, such a system is rife with uncertainty, and the history of the process is full of skulduggery, both on the club and player side.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In her 30-year career, Laura has won numerous national awards for coverage of human trafficking, child welfare, crime and government secrecy.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025
  • That year, The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer of Raleigh investigated the secrecy cloaking the state’s poultry industry.
    Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There’s an unapologetic cunning at the heart of this series, and a mercurial spirit that’s as slippery as blood on an Italian marble floor.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Just as Nordlinger shows that the peacemakers and Nobel laureates whose work holds up best are those who brought specific conflicts to an end, the organizations in Bob's account that get the most done are those that pursue limited goals with cunning and patience.
    Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2012

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“Gamesmanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamesmanship. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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