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shticks

noun

variants also schticks or shtiks

plural of shtick

as in acts

a performance regularly presented by an individual or group his shtick as a falling-down drunk isn't funny to people battling alcoholism

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Recent Examples of shticks Why do these shticks elicit such delight? — Elise Broach, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

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acts

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These belated acts of institutional integration are part of a necessary and long overdue revision of West German art history’s mechanisms of exclusion.

— Elisa R. Linn, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Its most prominent acts include Junior H, Fuerza Regida and Peso Pluma.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

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