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trick

[trik] / trɪk /




NOUN
time working at something
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As a young professional, my trick ankle gave out and I collapsed in front of my boyfriend, Drew, in the parking lot of a TV studio in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

My favorite trick for making mismatched serving pieces look intentional is to keep them loosely within one color story.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

This trick can stop him from making impulse buys and push him to comparison shop for better prices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The trick with thrusters was evocative of what SpaceX has now been doing for years with booster rockets cruising back to earth, touching down in landing pads or being snared by launch towers.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Until he tried to play a trick on Old Emma.

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

TikTok videos posted by Benson showed the youngster performing tricks outside a Hilton hotel plaza and in the middle of a residential street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The movie became a surprise hit on VHS, in part because it was the first time many BMX fans got to see certain tricks on screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

I don’t think you are doomed, but nor do I have tips or tricks — except to say that if you don’t talk about it, this economic disparity will become bigger than both of you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Tim shows me a few of his favorite linking-loop and card tricks.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

A data breach could affect customers in the future if their personal information is used in so-called "phishing" attacks, where someone is tricked into revealing their password to an online service.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

We sort of like to see them trick us all, though we also do like to see them go down after they’ve tricked us.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

He was tricked into surrendering when he mistook Ukrainian soldiers for his Russian allies.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

But if the building appears to predict a series of high-tech galleries, tricked out with holograms, audio spotlights or mixed reality rooms, the Lucas museum is surprisingly old-school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Then on a day so like summer that the apple trees were tricked into fruit, there came another visitor.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

A man tricking a hospital receptionist is not exactly a criminal mastermind.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 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 think either of us are going to be tricking each other,” Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

And to her, tricking her: how dare he?

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman


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