sleight

The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

The author also explores the sleight of intellect practiced by Jefferson, a slave owner who deplored slavery and used his rhetorical skills to cast the cause of states’ rights as a question of liberty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

But Beethoven also questions every sentiment in the Mass. Grandeur can so suddenly turn solemn that it feels almost a ceremonial sleight of hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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 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