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
Tall tales: Dylan the trickster conspired with Scorsese to make up stuff according to whim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
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
The people flocked to the abandoned Greek camp to see the sights: here Achilles had sulked so long; there Agamemnon’s tent had stood; this was the quarters of the trickster, Odysseus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Authorities warn that they won’t call you to threaten arrest or demand money over missed jury duty, yet tricksters convince many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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
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STAAR English II: Elements of Literature 2
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