variants
also schtick
or shtik
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Recent Examples of shtick
These objects’ whole shtick, after all, is gobbling up stuff, so two of them trying to eat each other feels inevitable.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
The shirt-off schtick fueled his fame and became a trademark of his.
—Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Ailes had never much cared for Carlson’s preppy, fraternity-rush-chair shtick.
—Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Every chair approaches that part of the program in their own way; some have done schtick, others have been more straightforward.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2026
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
The shirt-off schtick fueled his fame and became a trademark of his.
—Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Ailes had never much cared for Carlson’s preppy, fraternity-rush-chair shtick.
—Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Every chair approaches that part of the program in their own way; some have done schtick, others have been more straightforward.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shtick
act
Noun
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Those are fighting words, and, in the coming days, the Pope can counter them as much through symbolic acts as through words of peace.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Shtick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shtick. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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