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The phrase "a sort of trick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is not exactly a trick but has similar qualities or characteristics.
Example: "The magician used a sort of trick to create the illusion of disappearing."
Alternatives: "a kind of trick" or "a type of trick".
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To this way of thinking, trans people suffer from a sort of trick of nature, whereby they have the brain of one gender in the body typical of the other.
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Well, pizza is a sort of magic trick.
The white light of wonder that shone on the whole business was not any sort of trick..
The white light of wonder that shone on the whole business was not any sort of trick...
Bernhard's act is a sort of confidence trick, selling the thrill of badness while picking the public's pocket.
In the early years of Arena, it had a weekend repeat and the Astons (captions) had to be inserted: "I did it as a sort of party trick, I would be able to be at lunch [with friends] on Sunday and pick up the telephone and say shall we watch the programme.
If anything, it sounded like a sort of parlor trick.
She laughed off the incident at the time, she said, even telling other people about it as a sort of "party trick".
It became a sort of party trick, like pulling a quarter from behind someone's ear, or drinking a jar of pickle brine.
I think sometimes artists use these new mediums and it becomes a sort of sensationalist trick, it's like a spectacle.
But when we do, there's a fear that we'll be labelled as the journalist-who-only-talks-about-race – a sort of one-trick pony.
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