“Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock ⟳ and use ⟳ that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage ⟳ this trick ⟳ are already familiar to experts in the field.”

“the tricks of boys”

“They played a crude trick ⟳ on the teacher.”

“a trick ⟳ of drumming with the fingers; a trick ⟳ of frowning”

“He hath a trick ⟳ of Cœur de Lion's face ⟳.”

“The trick ⟳ of that voice I do well remember ⟳.”

“I cannot tell ⟳ , but it stirs me more than all your court curls , or your spangles , or your tricks”

“I was able to take ⟳ the second trick ⟳ with the queen of hearts.”

“And now (as oft in some distemper'd state) / On one nice trick ⟳ depends the gen'ral fate!”

“turn ⟳ a trick ⟳”

“turn ⟳ tricks”

“Across 110th street / Woman trying to catch ⟳ a trick ⟳ on the street, ooh baby / Across 110th Street / You can find ⟳ it all in the street”

“I see ⟳ your teeth flash ⟳, Jamaican honey so sweet Down where Lexington cross 47th Street. Oh, she's a big girl, she's standing six-foot three, Turning tricks for the dudes in the big city.”

“You lied to me, Leon. It was a rough trick ⟳.”

“Perhaps the most important thing a prostitute learns is how to "manage ⟳" the client; how to con him into spending more money than he planned. Learning how to perform ⟳ tricks takes only a few minutes. Learning how to "hustle" the client takes longer.”

“"How did you get ⟳ into all this?" "I started doing tricks when I was young and I don't mean ⟳ the magic circle. I learned about sex from an early age. There was nothing else to do in Pitsea except heavy petting and getting F grades at school."”

“When he later asked her to strip ⟳ and perform ⟳ tricks for him, she refused, and he chased her away. She had similar experiences with other men until she eventually fell into prostitution: […]”

“As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick ⟳."”

“Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick ⟳ in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed ⟳.”

“On third trick ⟳ from 12 m. to 8 am, we have ⟳ W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.”

“Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick ⟳ $60, second trick ⟳ $60, third trick ⟳ $50.”

“The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick ⟳ in the Core Room Department.”

“I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like ⟳ a whetted knife; And all I ask ⟳ is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep ⟳ and a sweet dream ⟳ when the long trick's over.”

“The vviles and guiles that vvomen vvorke, / Diſſembled vvith an outvvard ſhevv: / The tricks and toyes that in them lurke, / The Cock that treads thẽ [them] ſhall not knovv, […]”

“Heraldic Collections of various Heralds and others, containing Arms blazoned and in trick ⟳, grants of arms, pedigrees, etc.”

“The trick ⟳ […] might be meant for a lion passant or for one rampant embelif […]”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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