noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He wore a fake mustache in a ruse to conceal his identity.
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It was just a ruse to get what I wanted!
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She asked to use the telephone as a ruse to enter the house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Demonstrating parental behaviour towards infants may be a ruse by which low-ranking males are able to gain mating opportunities.
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He no longer carried on the ruse of going up to the swimming pool every day.
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Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider.
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The ruse fell apart when Kennedy contacted the supposed letter writers after the sentencing to thank them for their interest.
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The perverted originality of Iago's ruse , now linked to a cause, thereby loses its lurid gleam.