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trick

[trik] / trɪk /




NOUN
time working at something
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But one thing is clear: The ploy was designed to trick.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

The trick is creating that sense of abundance without requiring too much of yourself during your limited weekend downtime.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

“We tried every possible trick… but sometimes the market is just the way it is,” Torres said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

It was one of the grand lady’s more enigmatic statements, but still, it had done the trick.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

"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

But at halftime and during the hydration breaks, the message from the bench was to ignore any tricks the Paraguayans tried to pull.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Moneyist Facebook Group members shared some of their own tricks of the trade.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

The tricks of the Antarctic atmosphere brought mock suns and green sunsets, and showers of jewel-colored ice crystals.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Meta’s smart glasses, in a partnership with Ray-Ban that’s tricked out the classic Wayfarers, among others, at least look better.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

In the suit, she claims that she was contacted by someone posing as a talent agent or producer and tricked into offering “private details of her life” over the phone in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

She spotted the problem before being tricked, but many thousands of others were not so lucky.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

Those 7,500 New Yorkers didn’t opt out because we tricked them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

“You’ve tricked me,” he blurted out, and stalked out of the apartment, never to go back.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

ChatGPT, he said, can be “addictive” because it mimics human empathy, tricking users into providing more information to the AI chatbot.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Instead, recent attacks relied on phishing -- tricking users into handing over access to their accounts.

From Barron's Apr. 25, 2026

The former MP filed her statement with police after her half-sister, Nkosazana Zuma-Mncube, accused her of tricking South Africans to join the war and laid a criminal complaint against her in November.

From BBC Feb. 24, 2026

“I don’t like thinking about my Rachel tricking Traveler just to get back at me.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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