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trickery

[trik-uh-ree] / ˈtrɪk ə ri /


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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

As to the trickery itself, the proof is in the pudding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

When Healey resigned earlier this month, his allies had claimed that "Treasury trickery" had in effect inflated the money that appeared to be attached to the investment plan.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

The next day the hunter performed his trickery and lured the herd into an open ing.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

But trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One.

From Time Magazine Archive

At first Una had thought him humorless and negligible, but she discovered that it was he who pulled Mr. Truax out of his ruts, his pious trickeries, his cramping economies.

From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

As thou mightst think, it grew to be their favorite coigne for playing their dragon and princess trickeries.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives

You are, I see, the same, whatever changes time may have made in me; but I have outlived these trickeries.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

As a lawyer Barlow lacked the smoothness and suavity of the practised advocate, while the petty details and trickeries of the profession disgusted him.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various


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