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trick

[trik] / trɪk /




NOUN
time working at something
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Caballero, meanwhile, said that he’s “not trying to trick someone.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 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

A behind-the scenes perspective on the Onion’s gloriously unhinged parody: If you could use a laugh, the absurd comedy on offer at the new Infowars might do the trick.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

The excitement of playing a trick generated more energy than she knew what to do with.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

"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

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

Celenza says that some of his tips and tricks have actually come from conversations with fans and viewers of the show.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

“Anatsou is a maker of mischief and magic, a trader of tricks and truths. Humans will never know what Anatsou is.”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

I started researching the lyrics and realized this band tricked us into positivity, like getting us to eat our vegetables.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

His previous creations have included a smartwatch and a high-tech face mask launched during the pandemic and tricked out with Bluetooth, LED lights and a magnetic earbud docking system.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

There were many times when she’d tricked Seven or another one of their classmates into believing something that wasn’t true for a prank.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

The Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement days into a trial over a lawsuit accusing Amazon of tricking consumers into automatically enrolling into Prime and making it tough to cancel their subscriptions.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2026

“You’re almost tricking the audience, where they’re looking at the whole picture, and you’re able to seed things and tease things and make them paranoid about where they should be looking.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

And to her, tricking her: how dare he?

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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