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- noun Plural form of
subterfuge .
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Examples
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Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions?
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"And do you think that a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions?"
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Old. Soon I 'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions?
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The instruments of the early eighteenth century were characterized by a tone so thin and of such short duration that the composers and players (and it should be remembered that in those days practically all of the great composers played, and most of the great performers were composers) had to resort to all kind of subterfuges and tricks to produce the deception of a prolonged tone.
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Jews may use lies ( "subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile.
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Jews may use lies ( "subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile. "
Infowars 2009
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He said a system abetting corruption and "subterfuges," and where "having connections is the norm
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He said a system abetting corruption and "subterfuges," and where "having connections is the norm
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Morgan Chase From all the machinations and subterfuges the banks have tried in court, it appears that proper transfers of notes almost never took place.
L. Randall Wray: Nightmare on Wall Street L. Randall Wray 2011
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Say what you will about his on-air rants, I'll take them any day over the subterfuges used by NPR to fire Juan Williams.
Why I'll Miss Keith Olbermann Bret Stephens 2011
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