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- noun Plural form of
ploy .
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Examples
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The result of such news making negative ploys is that it numbs the publoc from wanting to hear different points of view from even those people who make positive efforts and work hard to improve are government.
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You also just admitted, however, that the suggestion that if we vote for Hill we might also get Obama on the ticket (wink, wink) was just another of Clintons 'cynical ploys -- in other words, that there is no limit to the patently absurd and contradictory things they will say in order to get elected.
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The latest of the ploys is the wingers bankrolling ultrasound equipment so that the women coming in see the pictures of their little helpless “babies” which convinces them not to terminate.
Firedoglake » Lieberman Supports Anti-Choice License Plates For Connecticut 2006
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While Nadal just has an uncanny ability to attack Roger's slice and that takes away one of Federer's favorite ploys, which is to put people in awkward situations with that short slice.
Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News contact@tennis-x.com 2010
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While Nadal just has an uncanny ability to attack Roger's slice and that takes away one of Federer's favorite ploys, which is to put people in awkward situations with that short slice.
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The circus of automotive sales ploys, that is, financed by the heyday of U.S. car sales in the baby boom generation.
The Car Connection 2009
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The fact that the Boy seems to have been blessed with emotional intelligence in spades and would immediately see through these kind of ploys makes this new resolution easier to keep.
tongue-tied 2007
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The fact that the Boy seems to have been blessed with emotional intelligence in spades and would immediately see through these kind of ploys makes this new resolution easier to keep.
channel hopping 2007
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According to the Cuban leader, it is not yet clear whether all the positive signs are merely tactical "ploys," since if the arms programs are undertaken, "there will not be detente."
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That's why they are always pushing the extreme right-wing zionist/christian zionist "ploys".
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