trick
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The king of Ithaca’s pride in his ingenious trick is steadily sapped by a series of cosmic punishments.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Joel Mawhinney, known as Joel M, said the "risky" trick was "the scariest experience" of his life.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“You can use it to trick your mind to think that a dish is sweet and reduce upwards to 20-30% percent of the sugar content,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
“We tried every possible trick… but sometimes the market is just the way it is,” Torres said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
I had one trick left and it was a good one because it had never failed.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The humanoids are still better at gimmicky tricks than useful household tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"In that journey, you figure out timing, you figure out tricks like how to get someone's attention in the first three seconds," Barker told The Big Picture podcast recently.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Ofcom's proposed measures are targeting content which advertises products or services in a way that misleads or tricks viewers.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Moneyist Facebook Group members shared some of their own tricks of the trade.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Jabir demonstrated a few more tricks before clapping his hands and signaling for the dogs to stop and sit.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Costco also denied claims that shoppers were tricked into paying a premium for its rotisserie chicken because of the “no preservatives” label.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
They tricked image recognition systems into mistaking photographs of cats for guacamole, and found new ways of embedding inaudible Alexa commands into five-second snippets of classical music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
As a result, people were more susceptible to being scammed - something that often happened at a vulnerable moment, even if the victim did not consider themselves vulnerable to being tricked.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
She spotted the problem before being tricked, but many thousands of others were not so lucky.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
One tribe even tricked us by first trading goats to us for some empty cooking oil cans we had, then sneaking up on us to steal their goats back.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
Is Circe really scared or tricking them to lure them in?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Instead, recent attacks relied on phishing -- tricking users into handing over access to their accounts.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement days into a trial over a lawsuit accusing Amazon of tricking consumers into automatically enrolling into Prime and making it tough to cancel their subscriptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
The hackers likely executed a “SIM swap,” tricking a mobile provider into transferring a phone number to a SIM card the hackers control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
“Yeah,” I said, “I’m a real tricker. But I’m not tricking you now. My name really is Humphrey.”
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
