Although it is reasonable to respond by defending eclecticism, it is wor th noting that this pedagogy is not a bag of diverse tricks.
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Thus, the cuckoo deposits eggs in passerine nests, tricking the foster parents into incubating and feeding the cuckoo's young.
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Showing that certain psychics had used deception, and even replicating their tricks, did not prove that all psychics were fakes.
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Environment-driven resonances have their limits as far as explaining the full range of cognitive tricks goes.
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In this case, however, we are looking at one of the tricks that history keeps up its sleeve to confound prediction.
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A good account of the history of commercial design computing can be built on events introducing new representational tricks.
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A number of interesting tricks are combined together.
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He knows all its tricks and aptitudes; when to coax and when to force it, when to rely on it and when to distrust it.
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He played his tricks on women and children, in particular, and deluded them into spiritual crime.
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Modeling tricks and fitting techniques for multiresolution structures.
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He wasn't full of mannerisms and little tricks of the trade.
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To eliminate gravity's influence on a motion, for example, the art of experimentation offers many tricks.
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The priestly pretense to maternity is a grotesque parody - self-aggrandizing patriarchal power tricked out in the robes of female love and nurturance.
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Although the tricks may vary, the jaduwallah typically works in open spaces, streets, parks, fairs, and festivals, as a travelling entertainer.
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They were worried about being 'robbed' or tricked by people (including other farmers) replacing some of the product with petrol in the bottle.
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Collocationswithtrick
trick
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clever trick
He played many aclevertrickon us, but never a deceitful or an underhand one.
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dirty trick
Adirtytrickhas been used to keep us out of the codecision procedure.
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little trick
In fact, the use of the tag model needs alittletrick.
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