artifice
Example Sentences
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But layer a catchy tune over all that artifice, and the music is the only thing many people will hear.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 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 player-friendly artifice that defines so much of Las Vegas was absent here.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
The story is told in the form of letters and emails, an artifice rarely embraced by readers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025
As long as no one succumbed to its artifice and unsickled it with a cigar.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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