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They asked contributors to “use every dirty trick you know to make your problems as brutal as possible,” says Elliot Glazer, a mathematician at Epoch AI who led the benchmark study.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

How did you come up with that dirty trick?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2024

The health code “can also easily be used as a dirty trick for stability maintenance,” said Lin Yingqiang, a longtime petitioner from Fuzhou, in southeastern China.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2022

He was caught on camera deliberately disturbing the penalty spot with his boot, a most despicable dirty trick, and then chases down the referee to tell him why his penalty decision was wrong.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2022

He was never quite sure who’d played that dirty trick on him in the first place.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney