chicanery

Example Sentences

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“This sort of chicanery has been going on since at least the ’90s,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Did he feel he needed to shake up his players by warning them of supposed chicanery?

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

By highlighting some of this procedural chicanery, Kagan’s dissent in Mirabelli laid bare, in remarkably blunt fashion, the tip of a dreadful iceberg.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

That said, there are plenty of reasons — none involving any kind of partisan chicanery — that explain why California elections seems to drag on and vote totals shift as ballots are steadily counted.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

In their zeal to avoid resurrecting the sport’s reputation for chicanery, they tried to bury the incident.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand