trickery
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The Liverpool winger, 18, has had an exciting start to the season, catching the eye with his invention and trickery down both flanks for Andoni Iraola's side.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
After trying the half-phone, half-tablet hybrid at Apple Park, however, she found Apple’s hardware and software trickery made up for basic design shortcomings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Following the announcement of the defence investment plan, he condemned what he called "Treasury trickery" and the lack of clarity on what new money the Ministry of Defence would get.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He appears to have dedicated much of his time there to putting out videos and written posts about demons and their trickery.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
In order to prevent any preplanned trickery, the committee changed the Thursday afternoon location to the Post home.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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But trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After this Jacob served for Rachel also, and then the remainder of the chapter of Jacob’s servitude to Laban is but the recital of a series of frauds and trickeries.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
You are, I see, the same, whatever changes time may have made in me; but I have outlived these trickeries.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
From the first he eschewed the facile trickeries and ostentations which allure the populace.
From Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
His life was a series of petty intrigues, trickeries, and deceptions.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
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