diversionary tactic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiversionaryandtactic
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diversionary
adjective
uk/daɪˈvɜː.ʃən.ər.i/us/dɪˈvɝː.ʃən.er.i/
taking your attention away from ...
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tactic
noun
uk/ˈtæk.tɪk/us/ˈtæk.tɪk/
a planned way of ...
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(Definition ofdiversionaryandtacticfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He wanted adiversionarytactic.
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His answer was adiversionarytactic.
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Perhaps the press releases are adiversionarytactic.
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The figure of 6 million is simply adiversionarytactic.
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The pogrom began as adiversionarytactic.
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The proposal for a special procedure is nothing more or less than adiversionarytactic.
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This is adiversionarytacticon the part of people who are against the idea.
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Does he agree that the armed forces are masters of thediversionarytactic?
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It is adiversionarytacticto try to deflect the anger at the economic mess over which they preside.
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That concept would be all right were it not for the fact that such adiversionarytacticalso has wrong psychological effects.
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It is an artificial debate and adiversionarytacticwhich shows little familiarity with the way in which the sentencing system works.
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The program was seen as adiversionarytacticinitiating further picayune studies of sardine abundance to delay sardine catch regulations.
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Goldhagen, who acknowledged that the photo wrongly identified the figure and location, described the lawsuit as a crudediversionarytacticto displace focus from the real issues.
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Unlike the strawman, which is premised on a distortion of the other party's position, the red herring is a seemingly plausible, though ultimately irrelevant,diversionarytactic.
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