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单词 ruse
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ruse
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n

Movie bank robbers always seem to pull some kind of ruse, a deceptive trick or tactic like hiding the money underneath the bank while they drive off in the getaway car to avoid capture by the police.
You'd use a ruse if you were up to something sneaky and were trying to get away with it without being discovered. The wife planning a surprise birthday party for her husband could send him out to the supermarket as a ruse, a trick so she could sneak one hundred of his closest friends into the house without him noticing.
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ruse: ruses
USAGE EXAMPLES
The pretext was to bomb the Islamic State; it was a ruse.
The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016)
The ruse was revealed in an article that appeared in The Stranger newspaper.
Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016)
A well-constructed Russian maskirovka ruse, like a good Russian play, typically builds an underlying narrative before introducing the plot twist.
New York Times(Oct 12, 2016)
n a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
Syn|Hyper
artifice
maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre
a move made to gain a tactical end
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