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Gould used all of them against Vanderbilt, employing various ruses to issue massive amounts of new stock.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

The specific issue with the windbreakers was that ICE agents were engaging in various ruses to get people to open the door.

From Slate Jul. 3, 2025

He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.

From Salon Jan. 7, 2025

And while he called the debate over interrogation methods a “complex question,” he said he remains convinced “that there’s a point in time to use ruses in interrogation techniques.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2024

Others, clinging still to that brief glimpse of post-Civil War freedom, employed a thousand ruses and stratagems of struggle to win their rights.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright