knacks

noun

plural of knack
1
as in ruses
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end tried every knack I knew to get him to spill the beans

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2
as in talents
a special and usually inborn ability a jazz musician with an incredible knack for improvisation

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Recent Examples of knacks Donate your knick-knacks to the thrift store for the true collectors to snatch up. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 June 2026 There are thousands of different novelties, knick-knacks and souvenirs here. — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 11 June 2026 People wave flags and hand out swag (knick-knacks like T-shirts, wristbands, and stickers). — Allison Hope, Parents, 3 June 2026 One of Knudson-Freeman’s many knacks was research and development, according to Freeman, saying his mother always wanted the food chain’s menu to be craveable. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026 From clothing to toys, knick-knacks to collectibles, all sorts of items were seen for sale on Saturday. — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026 At least Stijn Verhoeven and Ewa Mroczkowska’s nuanced production design for the interiors, including bourgeois homes full of kitschy knick-knacks, anonymous office spaces and frigidly austere villas, tell a story of their own about the material culture of the era. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026 These aren’t just knick knacks that will end up forgotten in the back of a closet. — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026 Flamingo Island Flea Market Just off I-75 awaits a cornucopia of vintage decor, houseplants, pottery, and other knick-knacks. — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knacks
  1. ruses
  2. talents
  3. tricks
  4. gifts
  5. schemes
  6. aptitudes
  7. devices
  8. flairs
Noun
  • Even before pro-party AI ruses were possible, the Chinese government and its supporters flooded social media with pro-China propaganda and vicious attacks on critics.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
  • Such offenders will use all different ruses to distract the victim, such as claiming to be utility workers, tree trimmers, or handymen working on neighbors' houses.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of ruses
Noun
  • Discover talents such as Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal at The Golden Vines® 2026, taking place in London from November 6 to 8, 2026.
    — Lewis Chester, Robb Report, 11 July 2026
  • The player in question is Jesse Bisiwu from Club Brugge, who has been described as one of Europe’s most exciting attacking talents.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of talents
Noun
  • Lennox and Kember are so good at playing these meta-textual tricks.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026
  • To that point, experts in neuroscience and AI think that the difficulty of old dogs learning new tricks is significantly underappreciated.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Definition of tricks
Noun
  • The lawsuit recruiters came to their town bearing gifts, several residents told The Times.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • Both ideas were kind of expensive, so the three of us agreed to split the costs of both gifts.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2026
Definition of gifts
Noun
  • Its cases target schemes including false country-of-origin declarations, misclassified goods, and the routing of products through third countries to evade tariffs.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026
  • Soon after Rhaenyra executes Otto Hightower, who was once mastermind of that family’s schemes, Ormund steps up to be the faction’s new heavy.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026
Definition of schemes
Noun
  • For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.
    — GRACIA LIU-FARRER, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2025
Definition of aptitudes
Noun
  • Grab bars — rails attached to walls, particularly in bathrooms — help provide balance and prevent falls, preventing serious injuries, said Jim Christian, founder of the effort to push Medicare to cover the devices, Safety Bars for America.
    — Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been compromising routers for years, sometimes in prolonged tugs-of-war to wrest control of devices the other has already commandeered.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Definition of devices
Noun
  • Produced by Cuban hitmakers Nando Pro and La Companioni, the song is an uplifting urban-tropical fusion with flairs of reparto music towards the end.
    — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2026
Definition of flairs

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