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But was the decision to hand her the "global success" award a thinly-veiled ploy to tempt her back on to the stage?

There’s been a lot of that too: It’s a negotiating ploy aimed at Arab leaders, Bibi Netanyahu or both: Get on board my nonexistent peace plan, or the s**t’s really gonna hit the fan!

One of the things I thought was particularly clever, and which was definitely a ploy by Arteta, was the amount of times their goalkeeper David Raya went long when he had the ball.

The proposal is not quite as sycophantic as Florida Rep. Greg Steube's proposal last year to rename the U.S. coastline after Trump, though it's a somewhat transparent ploy for presidential attention.

Kennedy's critics pointed out that empty rhetoric about nutrition and exercise is a standard deception ploy from anti-vaccine activists.