sleight
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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
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
For years, the company pulled off this bizarre sleight of hand—effectively acting as a middleman that buys Bitcoin for you so your stock in the company is worth less than Bitcoin.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
They watched his dealing more closely, mistaking his clumsiness for a cardsharp’s sleight of hand.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
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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