trick
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“We tried every possible trick… but sometimes the market is just the way it is,” Torres said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
A behind-the scenes perspective on the Onion’s gloriously unhinged parody: If you could use a laugh, the absurd comedy on offer at the new Infowars might do the trick.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
He signed for the club after notching a 119th-minute winner for Spain against Germany in the quarters at Euro 2024, and has kept repeating the trick ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Luring visitors inside with refreshment was a little trick Clare had learned from Brickbane, who’d learned it from Po, who’d learned it from Eddifoot, who’d learned it from the Usher before him, and so on.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
But at halftime and during the hydration breaks, the message from the bench was to ignore any tricks the Paraguayans tried to pull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Moneyist Facebook Group members shared some of their own tricks of the trade.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The announcement Thursday marks the end of an era for loyal fans of the high-tech toy, which develops its own personality and can perform tricks like waving and mimicking its owner.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
And it’s also one of the easiest entertaining tricks a home cook can borrow.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
At first I think I am seeing a vision, that my imagination is playing tricks.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Meta’s smart glasses, in a partnership with Ray-Ban that’s tricked out the classic Wayfarers, among others, at least look better.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
They tricked image recognition systems into mistaking photographs of cats for guacamole, and found new ways of embedding inaudible Alexa commands into five-second snippets of classical music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
After claiming he had been in an accident on a work trip, he tricked Kirsty into sending thousands of pounds which was then stolen.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
She spotted the problem before being tricked, but many thousands of others were not so lucky.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
When “parallel” lines converge at the vanishing point in a painting, observers are tricked into believing that the lines never meet.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The arrest and rescue follow the publication of a BBC investigation exposing how scammers in Mityana, posting social content of dogs in distress, have been tricking international donors out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Instead, recent attacks relied on phishing -- tricking users into handing over access to their accounts.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
“I don’t think either of us are going to be tricking each other,” Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
The hackers likely executed a “SIM swap,” tricking a mobile provider into transferring a phone number to a SIM card the hackers control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
They could change shape and charmspeak, tricking mortals into letting down their guard.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
