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The phrase "a bluffing" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly because "bluffing" is a gerund or present participle and does not require an article like "a."
Example: "He was caught bluffing during the poker game."
Alternatives: "a bluff" or "bluffing action".
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"It was a bluffing game, that's all," Smith said.
Bruno splashed Macallan into two tumblers and said, "Backgammon isn't a bluffing game".
But the game also includes a bluffing mechanic which turns every decision into a fraught battle of wills.
Stripped of the ability to tell any manner of lie, low-level, social, white, he became a more harmful presence than he ever was as a bluffing smoothy.
Each fare increase over the last five decades has been accompanied by a bluffing game by the transit system as it sought to prevent hoarding of tokens at the pre-increase price.
The two sides play quite differently: Corporations play a bluffing game, setting up defences and punishing the runner for diving too deep while trying to protect their Agendas long enough to score them for points.
Similar(49)
"This is a bluff".
"It was a bluff".
A warning? Or a bluff?
Are his nuclear threats just a bluff?
"This is not a bluff.
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