artifice
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Wacky animal sidekicks once felt vibrant in a holistic world of artifice; here, a goggle-eyed rooster just looks diseased.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
“Being aware of the artifice is, to some extent, part of the charm, so we’re not trying desperately to hide that stuff.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Some crafty artifice and a heap of negative space aren’t enough to fill the void left by a complete lack of narrative sense.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
The world that shaped Miller’s early years was one of suburban perfection and sheltered artifice, a nostalgic ideal so far removed from reality that it shares a developer with Disney World.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
The artifice required to shape a major work of history or philosophy was not in him.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
He was charged with one count of fraud schemes and artifices, one count of theft and two counts of false return in September 2020 and pleaded guilty in the case six months ago.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
He says that forms are artifices that keep us from being authentic.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
In this adaptation, written by Lee and Kevin Willmott, the antics and the artifices of “Lysistrata” are thrust to the foreground.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2015
This time, along with many other artifices, they brought a flying carpet.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing artifice
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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Divergent
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