trickery
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Buybacks aren’t accounting trickery, and they don’t starve companies of capital unless done recklessly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
Neymar brought profile and panache to Paris but could not deliver the holy grail of European success, Denilson's trickery failed to help Real Betis beat the drop, a car crash curtailed Gigi Lentini's buccaneering brilliance.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski find an enchanting balance between storybook allure and adult trickery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
Sela was the best; all the added muttering, dancing and trickery was done merely to enhance her reputation, to pull the wool over the eyes of stupid ignorant creatures.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
But trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the trickeries and mimicries of court life Bunsen was no adept, and nothing was easier than to outbid him in the price that is paid for royal favors.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
She saw through the rhetorical trickeries of the music, weighed its cheap splendours, realized the mediocrity of this second-rate poet turned symphonist.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
Leuwenhock!"--exclaimed Pepusch to him--"Leuwenhock, do you see now what comes of your trickeries?
From Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
By now Forbes was familiar enough with the trickeries of the steps to leave his feet to their own devices.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
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