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tricker
  • a word derived from trick.

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His deal with SpaceX will likely be much tricker to pull off: It depends on the “establishment of a permanent human colony on Mars with at least 1 million inhabitants.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

That is a tricker question than you might think.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023

While bigger brands such as Burberry and Raf Simons, among the most-anticipated highlights this season, pulled out of the Sept 16-20 event, for smaller labels doing so is tricker.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022

That is a tricker message than simply declaring victory at some point.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

The Tyger coming that way again touches something that is fastned to the tricker of the Cross-bow, and so it discharges upon him.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert