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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
trick .
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Examples
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I could only afford Spotrunner tho who said they had some great spots and creative available: They jedi'min tricked me, insisting I may want David Boon, but what I really need is Trevor Chappell: to promote gnoos.
Archive 2006-01-01 Ben Barren 2006
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I could only afford Spotrunner tho who said they had some great spots and creative available: They jedi'min tricked me, insisting I may want David Boon, but what I really need is Trevor Chappell: to promote gnoos.
Aussie Blog Day We Remember Trevor Chappell and Boonie Ben Barren 2006
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Just as the temperature graphs produced by the CRU are always "tricked" - a word from one of the e-mails describing how the data was rigged - show an upward-sloping "hockey stick," every discussion of global warming, these people have determined, has to show that global warming is occurring and that humans are responsible.
Victorville Daily Press : STEVE WILLIAMS Opinion Page Editor 2009
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A Langley, B.C., family says police are finally taking their complaints about a computer hacker seriously after a fake 911 call tricked police into surrounding their house with an emergency response team.
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A Langley, B.C., family says police are finally taking their complaints about a computer hacker seriously after a fake 911 call tricked police into surrounding their house with an emergency response team.
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A Langley, B.C., family says police are finally taking their complaints about a computer hacker seriously after a fake 911 call tricked police into surrounding their house with an emergency response team.
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A Langley, B.C., family says police are finally taking their complaints about a computer hacker seriously after a fake 911 call tricked police into surrounding their house with an emergency response team.
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A Langley family says police are finally taking their complaints about a computer hacker seriously after a fake 911 call tricked police into surrounding their house with an emergency response team.
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And will Barclays, which pledged $400-million for 20-year naming rights to the arena, really want to put its insignia on what critics are already calling a tricked-out airplane hangar?
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David Zax of Seed magazine wrote a piece about social scientist Ben Ho who is applying what he knows about behavioral economics to climate change, and how people might be "tricked" into reducing their carbon footprints.
Boing Boing 2009
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