play tricks
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“Certainly altitude kind of can play tricks on your stuff,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
As a previously flat pitch began to break up and play tricks, England first surrendered the initiative with the bat, then tried gamely with the ball to hang in the contest.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Daphne du Maurier’s fiction revels in the mind’s ability to play tricks on itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
The relationship between dark and light starts to play tricks on you in this part of Sweden, where the sun goes down around 3 p.m. in December.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Because we liked them, we began to play tricks on them and tease them.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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