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There's a subtle but powerful form of manipulation happening in AI companions.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025 -
The spawn, which typically takes place over a few days and lasts less than 20 minutes, is triggered by subtle environmental cues — moon phase, tides and water temperatures — that healthy reefs once responded to in consistent synchronization.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
17 Aug. 2025
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Köhler specializes in cunning, tonally surprising films about cross-cultural disconnection, and Gavagai is his most ambitious and expansive film yet—a pinpoint-accurate account of moral crises and social biases, modern and ancient, internal and external.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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But as the supervisors tweaked the incentives, a new form of cunning arose.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Filming Viral Invasions The wily tricks viruses use to infect human cells and reproduce are also under investigation.—
Katarina Zimmer,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Aug. 2025
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The summer soundtrack of our backyard is dominated by the awful, frantic scratching of squirrel claws against fence boards as the wily rodents scramble their way into my fig tree and onto my naughty list.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
3 Aug. 2025
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Longtime Sentinel photographer Joe Burbank was recognized for an artful snap of a foam party at the Orlando Science Center in May.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 July 2025
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Prosecutors painted a portrait of him as an artful tax dodger who devised one scheme after another to avoid paying his income taxes.—
Jay Weaver
July 24,
Miami Herald,
24 July 2025
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Her dribbling isn’t always crafty enough to evade traffic.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Aug. 2025
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His first goal came after a crafty double step-over to beat his defender and fire a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
31 July 2025
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My idea was not to get too trick-sy with it, to keep it at a fairly simple visual level.—
Corey S Powell,
Discover Magazine,
5 Nov. 2014
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As Halloween approaches, investors seem fearful that good credit performance may be more trick than treat.—
Telis Demos,
WSJ,
21 Oct. 2022
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Peter Pan is a big part of Alien: Earth, and the differing context of the two pieces of kids entertainment is a sly bit of commentary on childhood, arrested development, and storytelling tropes.—
James Grebey,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
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Its power rests in Benicio del Toro as the shady international businessman Anatole Korda, a sly, seductive operator who is trying to firm up his many enterprises and bequeath them to his daughter, Liesl, played marvelously by Mia Threapleton.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
21 July 2025
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In an audit, California’s special tax procedures can be tricky.—
Robert W. Wood,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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That’s a somewhat tricky proposition, since any money taken has to be paid back, and the reserve exists so the state can weather economic downturns.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Subtile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtile. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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