sleight
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A sleight of hand fills the Times piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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 duo recently joined “AGT” champion magician Shin Lim in his Las Vegas residency with an act that merged their mental magic with Lim’s sleight of hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025
This magician’s sleight of hand did not go unnoticed.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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 years, he’s kept vampiric hours in his Upper East Side apartment, spending all night practicing sleights and polishing routines.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The building also bears some of the visual sleights of hand borrowed from the industry that helped build it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
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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