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as in ruses
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
her husband used every trick in the book to get out of appearing in his parish's fashion show
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as in pranks
a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke
thought that gluing the silver dollar to the floor and watching him struggle to pick it up would be a good trick
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3
as in rituals
a usual manner of behaving or doing
that deadbeat is up to his usual tricks: once again he's claiming the check is in the mail
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as in feats
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
it'd be quite a trick to hit that target from here
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as in traits
an odd or peculiar habit
a dog with the trick of eating cabbage
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as in fools
to cause to believe what is untrue
you tricked me into thinking my ex wasn't coming to the party tonight
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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricks
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But at the brand’s newest Manhattan location, just east on 57th Street, there are more feats to behold.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
24 Jan. 2025 -
That parallel success opposite his rodeo feats stems from the Yates’ family business, Hitch Rack Performance Horses, which is operated out of their Pueblo property.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
19 Jan. 2025
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Influences have a way of appearing, like family traits, in idiosyncratic details such as the turn of a head or position of a hand, but here the steps and styles have been stripped of attitude and etiquette, to their elemental forms.—
Jennifer Homans,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Encourage Resilience And Adaptability In a rapidly changing work environment, resilience and adaptability are crucial traits.—
Nilesh Parmar,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Get my picks for the best 2025 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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This vulnerability resides in WebKit, the open-source browser engine that powers Safari, Mail, App Store and other apps on Apple devices.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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The museum also highlights how Swinton was inspired by authoritarian leaders Benito Mussolini and Kim Il-sung to nail her mannerisms.—
Matt Minton,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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But there’s something about that sort of adolescent age between 12 and 14, where people’s mannerisms change, and people’s bodies change, and people’s voices change, and all of those things.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Quantum sensing Quantum sensors will give us new ways of observing the world by relying on the highly sensitive nature of quantum states.—
Nishant Batra,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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White labeling is considered one of the most effective ways to achieve this.—
Joshua Siler,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Just one of those quirks that comes with being a goalie.—
Mark Lazerus,
The Athletic,
13 Dec. 2024
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The mismatch stems from one of the many oddities of the budget reconciliation process.—
Matthew Yglesias,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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So Strange, which is filled with antiques and oddities, providing an incredibly unique shopping experience.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Tricks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricks. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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