trickery
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Ndiaye, meanwhile, became the first Senegalese player to represent City and is bound to give opposition defenders with his trickery and pace.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
War is filled with flopping, feints and trickery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The news of Aaron Hickey is not good, so who plays right-back against the speed and blood-curdling trickery of Vini Jr?
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
He appears to have dedicated much of his time there to putting out videos and written posts about demons and their trickery.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
But the existing dagger could not be destroyed, and so it promised never to harm another through trickery, or by accident.’”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
But trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Meet me as a man and keep those trickeries for those who have not the clear sight.
From Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
When domesticated, its droll trickeries and capability of imitating the human voice and other sounds are well known.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
He had a profound respect for his profession, and scorned its trickeries.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
All sorts of trickeries, too; he sent spurious telegrams and got fictitious items into the newspapers; he lied through every medium known to the highest civilization.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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