trickery
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Buybacks aren’t accounting trickery, and they don’t starve companies of capital unless done recklessly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
Fellow wide player Findlay Curtis, 19, came off the bench late on against Haiti for his World Cup debut and also offers pace and trickery.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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
It was all cold trickery, it was all calculated, it was all enmity.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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
It was several seconds before the trickeries of nature, in the way of echoes, terminated and matters settled down to their natural quiet.
From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Meet me as a man and keep those trickeries for those who have not the clear sight.
From Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
After this Jacob served for Rachel also, and then the remainder of the chapter of Jacob’s servitude to Laban is but the recital of a series of frauds and trickeries.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
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