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trickery

[trik-uh-ree] / ˈtrɪk ə ri /


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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

Neymar brought profile and panache to Paris but could not deliver the holy grail of European success, Denilson's trickery failed to help Real Betis beat the drop, a car crash curtailed Gigi Lentini's buccaneering brilliance.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

The final shots, of Robert flying in an airplane for the first time, were captured with practical trickery.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

His coordinators, who have stayed with him across four different schools since 2016, don’t rely on trickery or exotic blitzes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 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

But Dingane was becoming weary of them and their trickeries.

From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram

But it irks me too bitterly to see this wicked knave, who by his trickeries has taken away all my customers, so amusing himself with my misery.”

From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de

It is man and his fancies, man and his trickeries, man and his inventions,—poor, paltry, weak, self-sighted man,—which the connoisseur forever seeks and worships.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

Although apparently innocent and in accord with the laws and customs of the times, Astor's real estate transactions were inseparably connected with consecutive evasions, trickeries, frauds and violations of law.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers




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