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Adjective
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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 -
If the high cost of it all is more trick than treat for you, here are several ways to turn your already smart home into a spook-tacularly genius haunted house.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA TODAY,
28 Oct. 2021
Adjective
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Of course, a good cosmic mystery always has a few red herrings, or at least, some tricky details.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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The arthouse business is tricky at the box office.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2026
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And some statistics can be misleading, as well.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Former employees of the DHS office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in a statement to Congress this month accused the department of providing lawmakers with a misleading report of civil rights complaints there.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2026
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But considering these crafty medieval Norwegians were hunting minke whales, no wonder.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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The gray area that enables rich, crafty, people to register their supercars and hypercars to a shell LLC formed in Montana instead of themselves personally in their home state.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
19 Mar. 2026
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Colleen in the service of good was wilier than the friends of secrecy and found a way to thwart their plan.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
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And are a lot of us eager to see Sabalenka try to add a big trophy to the new hardware on her ring finger—against, perhaps, Gauff, who at her best can blunt Sabalenka’s nuclear groundstrokes with her steady perseverance and wily strategy?—
Corey Seymour,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2026
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In state media comedy shows, jokes about Putin are told from time to time, but they are used to bolster his image as a powerful, cunning leader, and hold up Russia as a great country.—
Neringa Klumbytė,
The Conversation,
4 Mar. 2026
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These ambitious, cunning, and often amoral Cold War operatives were usually marginal or even inconsequential figures at home.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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And with veteran linebacker Bobby Wagner still on the open market, a value linebacker in Chenal is a sneaky good add.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2026
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Pépin’s memoir is a sneaky pleasure, too.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2026
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Interestingly, the wristband could accurately predict a wide array of hand positions, from 26 letters of complex American Sign Language signs to the subtle grips required for holding scissors, a tennis ball, or a pencil.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2026
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Mouth breathers tend to carry their head forward to open the airway, a subtle shift that can become its own habitual pattern.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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