tricks
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As a popular college creative writing professor who’d filled up in-person sections every term for 25 years, I worried I was too much of a Luddite to learn new cyber tricks.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Certainly altitude kind of can play tricks on your stuff,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some tricks to relieve stress: From the archives, yoga teacher Sara Pam Neufeld shares a workout that takes seconds—and could actually improve your quality of life.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The fibers are engineered to a length that enables them to resonate, producing a return that confuses enemy radar or tricks radar-guided missiles into locking onto the wrong target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Which is comforting but also terrifying: What if his mind is playing tricks on him?
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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