play tricks
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“Certainly altitude kind of can play tricks on your stuff,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Daphne du Maurier’s fiction revels in the mind’s ability to play tricks on itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
"We'd play tricks on each other," Redford said of his relationship with Newman.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
Then pollution, much from industry but some from farming itself, also started to play tricks on them over the past few decades.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Two friends, who liked to play tricks on one another and on other people, decided that they would go to the burial too.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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