trick
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The trick is not to recreate the chicken bake so faithfully that you simply end up with one lying open-faced on a pie crust.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Another trick when daylight is precious is to concentrate on the most basic school subjects, Perera said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
He recently noticed that trick no longer works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
And what about trick plays using his height?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
No, it hadn’t been a trick; that lion was massive, much larger than anything that existed outside the world of film.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Lan likened growing it to "raising a child -- I can give you all the tricks but I cannot guarantee you similar success".
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
As a popular college creative writing professor who’d filled up in-person sections every term for 25 years, I worried I was too much of a Luddite to learn new cyber tricks.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
He advised one of the council members to work on her Jedi mind tricks to fool them, then raised his hand to the audience, saying: “Do it like this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Weizenbaum cheekily called himself a “con man,” but one who enjoyed revealing his tricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
We’d play rummy while we waited for dinner, and afterwards he’d show me card tricks.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
She moved first to the beach, then to a reservation, and later, to the middle of nowhere - all in an effort to escape the feeling she was being tricked.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“It’s a nice place to meet our friends from all over the country,” Souza said, “and get tricked into this river.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Less than a month ago, Valerian was bragging about campers he and his friends had tricked into feasting with them, gorging on rotten leaves enchanted to look like delicacies.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
North Korea boosts its coffers by stealing cryptocurrency and even tricking Americans into working for them in U.S. companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Is Circe really scared or tricking them to lure them in?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
Bat had a weird feeling in his stomach, like the boy was tricking him.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
