trick
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His favorite trick can be summed up in the language of an infant’s board book: See Mike run.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Mr. Guimarães lightens the darkening mood with an inventive trick involving a volunteer’s wedding ring, which is invisibly transported across the stage with the help of a ball of yarn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Over time, bonuses and raises add up, and the trick is to avoid lifestyle creep as your disposable income increases, Grant said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
And the same month it was disclosed two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in attempted cyber-attacks.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Why did you trick me?” she shrieked after him.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
"The dark chocolate scent serves as a learned cue for a rich, bitter, and highly satiating food, which essentially tricks the system into an anticipatory state of fullness," said Nashrudin Naharudin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Additionally, McVay went to his usual bag of tricks, abandoning a successful running attack in favor of a tired and rusty Matt Stafford passing incessantly, being harassed and ineffective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Together, we have collated a host of tips and tricks from blind parents over the years for what to do when the baby arrives.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The cardsharps bring plenty of tricks to the table, but they’re still vulnerable, Ronnie knows, to “statistical fluctuation”: No player can win every hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The medium reported learning these tricks from “the women who practiced the same deception in Rochester.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
He was tricked into surrendering when he mistook Ukrainian soldiers for his Russian allies.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The company also agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime service and made it hard to cancel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Last September, Amazon paid $2.5 billion to settle allegations that it deceptively tricked consumers into Amazon Prime subscriptions and made cancelling them excessively difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Last year, the company agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a suit alleging it tricked people into signing up for Amazon Prime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
That Wiley boy tricked him three times, and after the third time, Daddy had to leave him alone.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Americans are awash in scams: phony UPS texts, AI-generated voices of loved ones in trouble, spoofed emails tricking city governments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
In his plea agreement, he admitted to tricking and defrauding at least 25 people into paying him at least $152,476.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
But while Carlini’s work had debunked many claims made by AI developers, he had focused on the threat of bad people tricking artificial intelligence systems into making mistakes, not on hackers harnessing them for superpowers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Instead, recent attacks relied on phishing -- tricking users into handing over access to their accounts.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
“If you’re right, it’s a little creepy that they’re tricking us like that.”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
