trick
Example Sentences
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"What excites us is the idea of repurposing well-known drugs and even commonly found food ingredients like caffeine to do entirely new tricks," Zhou said.
From Science Daily
It’s “a persistent pattern generally attached to nefarious tricks such as channel stuffing, aggressive revenue recognition or extended payment terms used as sales concessions,” Burry said in a recent Substack post.
From MarketWatch
Someone in this room was playing a cruel trick.
From Literature
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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
No AI magic trick is quite as impressive as the one it’s doing in financial markets—giving some utilities an upper hand with tech giants that are 100 times their size.
From Barron's
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