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The complaint performs the same sleight of hand with basic cable, claiming that the companies’ combined networks will have market power over distributors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Bellingham showed superb sleight of foot in the build-up to England's second goal.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

This sleight of hand directly undermines the intended safeguards in federal law.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

The dialogue is naturally digressive, sliding in just as much exposition as needed with a magician’s sleight of hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

He’d learned sleight of hand from the cardsharps and monte runners on East Stave, and spent hours practicing it in front of a muddy mirror he’d bought with his first week’s pay.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

That’s what Thompson is offering on “Never Be the Same”: no magic tricks or sleights of hand, but songs that listeners will feel and live.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

The trade agreement might not be such good news, however, as upcoming tech results will be watched for any signs of accounting sleights of hand, Swissquote analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

“For all the blink-and-it’s-gone sleights of hand,” writes essayist Lynell George in one such section, “here in Los Angeles, the deep past can catch you unawares.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

Ostensibly recounted with nothing but clinical curiosity, the transgressive patient’s evasions, provocations and sleights of hand are in this way craftily enacted by the novel itself.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021

I watched as he demonstrated tricks and sleights of hand he learned from Yorick, but I never dared to speak to him.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein