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something done to achieve a particular goal
Toddlers use a lot of different tactics to try to get what they want.
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Both tactics have drawn the ire of consumers across social media who, understandably, feel like they’re being deceived.
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Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
Supporters argue concerns over waning housing development represent an industry scare tactic and note that in the decades before Costa-Hawkins became law in the mid-1990s, when cities had the ability to put caps on vacant units and new construction, California saw an apartment development boom.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Eventually, the two officers change tactics, moving around the pumpkin’s large girth and joining a civilian who – out of view from the camera – had begun pulling at the pumpkin’s loose strings.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Rice's lawsuit says police used suggestive tactics that eventually led witnesses to wrongly identify Rice and Linder as the shooters.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
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Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
Supporters argue concerns over waning housing development represent an industry scare tactic and note that in the decades before Costa-Hawkins became law in the mid-1990s, when cities had the ability to put caps on vacant units and new construction, California saw an apartment development boom.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Eventually, the two officers change tactics, moving around the pumpkin’s large girth and joining a civilian who – out of view from the camera – had begun pulling at the pumpkin’s loose strings.
—Emily Palmer, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Rice's lawsuit says police used suggestive tactics that eventually led witnesses to wrongly identify Rice and Linder as the shooters.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Tactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tactic. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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