Devices and Tricks

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Devices noun - An inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.

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Tricks and devices are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tricks" instead a noun "Devices".

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Devices and tricks are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Devices" instead a noun "Tricks".

Master of Illusion: Eisenheim uses all sorts of ingenious devices and tricks to fool his audience.

Source: Film / The Illusionist
Seven Samurai was so influential to modern film that nearly everything in the movie - from cinematographic tricks to plot devices - has been rendered a cliche.

Source: Seinfeld Is Unfunny / Film
But she then cites precedents for breaking the PD to fix past breaches and in cases of humanitarian crises (something she's called out the Federation for not doing in the past), and instead gives the Alliance some tricks to defeat cloaking devices and even the odds.

Source: Fanfic / The Wrong Reflection

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