sleight
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The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bellingham showed superb sleight of foot in the build-up to England's second goal.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
A final section uses a sort of metaphysical sleight of hand to blend the two eras, but once again something doesn’t quite connect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
This sleight of hand directly undermines the intended safeguards in federal law.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
But what seem to be supernatural events are really sleight of hand.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
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