Ruse in a sentence as a noun

This whole program is a ******** ruse to deflect criticism.

I hate to break it to you, but religion is just a ruse to help people come to grips with their mortalities.

I hypothesize that this is a coordinated yet simple ruse to rebuild trust in these brands post-Snowden [1][2].

We trust the bank when we walk up to the brick and mortar office because the cost of 'fooling' average people would be too high to build this sort of ruse.

Then a fist slams on the table and the realization strikes you that the first part of the description was a kind of set up, this beautiful ruse.

Is this news?A more interesting exposition might be the ruse that exists because Americans conflate these two classes of rich.

It eventually becomes difficult, he told me, because you need to make sure to only review people with different managers, so nobody can catch on to your ruse.

Moreover, a good magician will prevent you from stopping to think about what he is doing by merely talking and distracting/leading your attention to the next ruse he wishes to perpetrate.

I could imagine falling for the OP's landline hangup ruse, but I can't imagine falling for somebody on the street telling me to type my PIN into their phone, regardless of how they were dressed.

We don't really understand the problems, so how can we make solutions?I'm also stunned at the inventor's wife, since she left him thinking this was just a ruse to meet younger women, but perhaps there's something cultural there that I'm unaware of.

Ruse definitions

noun

a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

See also: artifice