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also schtick
or shtik
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The Murakami shtick is on full display in The City and Its Uncertain Walls.
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
The Canyon Crest bear may have a shtick calibrated for social media stardom, but there’s plenty of competition among the Southland’s cast of charismatic — and potentially dangerous — wild animals.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
Sad fact is: Rock’s stand-up comedy shtick relies on black self-abasement (letting his white audience hear how blacks secretly deprecate themselves).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
The Canyon Crest bear may have a shtick calibrated for social media stardom, but there’s plenty of competition among the Southland’s cast of charismatic — and potentially dangerous — wild animals.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
Sad fact is: Rock’s stand-up comedy shtick relies on black self-abasement (letting his white audience hear how blacks secretly deprecate themselves).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Shtick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shtick. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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