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trickster

[trik-ster] / ˈtrɪk stər /


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Watching a trickster hypnotize someone in a live performance might impress you.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2025

The work in question is a "maqāma" -- an Arabic literary form that often features a wandering "trickster."

From Science Daily Nov. 11, 2025

The player gets played only when Dawson is challenged by a trickster even more devious than her.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2025

Crudup plays 19 characters in the 80-minute performance, taking on the roles of everyone the titular confidence trickster comes into contact with.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2024

Something Nyame said back when he’d confined the still-complaining trickster god.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

And they told stories about characters like Br’er Rabbit and Anansi, tricksters who provided models for overcoming powerful oppressors.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 15, 2026

Sprawling compounds where internet tricksters target people with romance and business cons have thrived along Myanmar's loosely governed border during its civil war, sparked by a 2021 coup.

From Barron's Oct. 29, 2025

But although screening at publishers is helpful, the arms race between screening methods and tricksters means it is unlikely to stem the tide of problematic papers entirely.

From Science Magazine May 31, 2024

Ravens: Ravens, notorious tricksters in many Indigenous Nations’ folklore, became more ominous thanks to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2023

What kind of tricksters invited accusers to examine them up close?

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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