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But the Beyoncé stage pictures are a ruse: they have an air of intimacy while telling us nothing of substance at all.

Lyman admitted that his friends were skeptical about his motives but he denied suggestions that this was an elaborate ruse.

Some consider this a continued furious response to the vaccine ruse perpetrated by the CIA in order to find Osama bin Laden.

According to the indictment, however, it was all a clever ruse.

The ruse by which he and Lannes captured the bridge below Vienna was discreditable no doubt from the point of view of morality.

The motive of this harmless ruse was to bolster up Spanish prestige and thereby avoid bloodshed.

The English, fearing a ruse, continued to stand to their arms till their scouts confirmed the mortifying intelligence.

Another ruse to keep her mind engaged was to trace out our course with a stick on a patch of bare earth.

It was but a ruse to hold his attention while savages up the slope and behind fallen timber drew a bead on him.