Design and Ploy

Design

Design noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.

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Ploy and design are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Design".

Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Design and ploy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Design" instead a noun "Ploy".

Nearby Word: ployed

old	old design	old ploy
good	good design	good ploy
exact	exact design	exact ploy
elaborate	elaborate design	elaborate ploy
Other adjectives: particular, similar, typical, common, alien, standard, initial, simple, bad, deliberate, final, classic, odd, basic.

As a marketing ploy design to dupe humanity into anticipating the arrival of its eventual machine overlord, the countdown made sense.

Source: Film / Terminator Genisys

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