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The phrase "a tricky person" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is cunning, deceitful, or difficult to deal with in a particular situation.
Example: "Be careful when negotiating with him; he's known to be a tricky person who often changes the terms at the last minute."
Alternatives: "a deceitful individual" or "a cunning character".
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Of Masters's many virtues, the topmost is the way he refuses easy copout labels for a tricky person, his commitment to human variety and unfathomability.
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A: Tricky.
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In deep learning, vast quantities of example data are used to train a large simulated neural network to perform a tricky task like recognizing a particular person in a photo or deciphering the words in speech.
It's a tricky gambit for an intensely verbal person to try to represent the interior life of an intensely nonverbal one — and that's the job of too many of these chapters.
Employing security is always going to be a tricky issue – a certain kind of person is likely to be attracted to these jobs – which makes it all the more important that staff are thoroughly vetted and the company subsequently held to account.
It's a tricky time to be a young person in Australia right now.
I will explain it better in person, but its a tricky situation and I know you once said you write letters of recommendation for students and I am in need of a good one.
Finding the appropriate person to read an audiobook is clearly a tricky art.
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