trick

Example Sentences

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While travel agents see the incognito trick as an ineffective weapon, consumer advocates say it’s one of the few tools consumers have to protect themselves from surveillance pricing.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

And the bots we interact with have a separate trick borrowed from humans: They look things up on Google or some other search engine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Bieber asks, and the trick of a song born from a branding problem is that it summons the sensation of endless ascent.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

De Zerbi's centre-backs often provoke opponents by placing their studs on top of the ball - a sort of psychological trick that causes a striker to leave their shape and engage.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

“You will have an opportunity to meet Sam and Serina a little later,” Callaway said with a grin at all of us, as though we’d all just performed some sort of impressive trick.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin