trickster
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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
“You were caught in our trap, plain as day. We knew the trickster would send someone, but children? He is truly desperate.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
We heard from finance professionals, doctors, lawyers and many others who have been jolted or taken in by tricksters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
Not exercising responsibility for safeguarding the property of the evacuees allowed “an interval of golden opportunity to swindlers and tricksters who had a terrified group of people at their mercy,” according to the apology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 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
The problem with tricksters is that they think everyone is playing the same games.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Vocabulary lists containing trickster
STAAR English II: Elements of Literature 2
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Lesson 3
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Craft and Structure Vocabulary, Unit 5
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