subterfuge

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 15, 2020 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>subterfuge</strong> &#149; \SUB-ter-fyooj\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><strong>1 :</strong> deception by <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artifice">artifice</a> or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade</p> <p><strong>2 :</strong> a deceptive device or <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stratagem">stratagem</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"First, an antivirus product may upload the complete text of files flagged to the cloud, where it can be analyzed by separate tools…. Some malware can detect when a running process may examine it, and will then engage in <em>subterfuge</em>." — <a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/3263722/best-antivirus-for-mac.html"><em>Macworld</em>, 4 May 2020</a></p> <p>"Shortly after sunset on Wednesday, President Donald Trump secretly boarded an undisclosed aircraft at an undisclosed airport in Florida and flew to Joint Base Andrews…. Air Force One, the plane Trump took from Washington, D.C., to Florida Tuesday evening, remained parked on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport as part of the <em>subterfuge</em>." — <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20191128/trump-in-palm-beach-how-trump-secretly-went-from-mar-a-lago-to-afghanistan">Christine Stapleton, <em>The Palm Beach Post</em>, 28 Nov. 2019</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>Though <em>subterfuge</em> is a synonym of <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deception">deception</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraud">fraud</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double-dealing">double-dealing</a></em>, and <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trickery">trickery</a></em>, there's nothing tricky about t