Meanings (ES + gloss)
gambito
An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.
estratagema
Any ploy or stratagem.
The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanit…
Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.
tema
A remark intended to open a conversation.
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