monkey tricks
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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“They seemed to claim that they had one key trick that made a whole bunch of different things easy, and that turned out not to be true.”
From The Verge • Dec. 15, 2021
A key trick involved finding two energy states that happen to be disturbed by the same amount, so that when the difference between them is measured, this distortion cancels out.
From Scientific American • Sep. 9, 2021
The key trick in surfing, it turns out, is not balance but reading and anticipating waves.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2015
In making hexamine for the new explosive, key trick was to turn out the chemical in a special grade.
From Time Magazine Archive
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