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The ploy worked—he promptly was named the king’s astronomer and received a royal stipend—but his colleagues outside of England objected.

Some brands like puzzle company Blue Kazoo have leaned into the platform as a customer feedback ploy, combing through comments for notes on product improvements and more.

Perhaps what bothers some people so much about the Kardashians is that their ploys for stardom worked so well.

Musk’s presence, and the sketches that followed, were part of a cynical ploy to boost the show’s pop culture capital within an entertainment landscape that has largely passed it by.

This is easily dismissed as a cynical marketing ploy, so you’ll need to follow through on your promise.

Is this just a ploy by the Islamic State—or the beginning of the road to retaking Mosul?

The head of the prison says Figueroa fabricated the story as a ploy to get the Dutchman transferred.

Do they really not look around them when they hit the shutter, or is it all part of a ploy to attract more attention?

But when it becomes a transparent ploy for fame it drives fans away.

That brassy ploy had caught the Costa Ricans entirely off-guard and had knocked them off their stride.

And so destroy our only defences; it is, indeed, a wise ploy!

I give you the old word, Elrigmore: 'Claymore and the Gael '; for the rest—pardon me—you gentlemen are out of the ploy.

Na, na—his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy—it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.

I don't think he went on to describe any—it was mostly a ploy on my part to curry him or make him feel more at ease.

There is a misprint of 'employ' in Thomas Davies' edition, as before.