tricks

Example Sentences

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It’s one of those cooking tricks that seems random and like it doesn’t actually add anything but immediately earns a permanent place in your rotation once you try it.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

“When customers or analysts start thinking, ‘Gosh, AI is gonna eat software or SaaS,’ it comes from the place of seeing parlor tricks.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“I deserve long-term stability. Not short-term tricks and ploys,” Rosalba Montoya, a medical assistant at UCLA, said in a recent statement posted on the union’s social media.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Iran is also desperate and known for having tricks up its sleeve—so we’ll see what happens with its excess oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

She was in Rochester when these tricks first begun, but came to Hydesville, the little village in Central New York, where we lived and were born, shortly after.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock