feint
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But this is all a feint: The movie sets you up for one thing and then delivers another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
A little shimmy in the area to feint away from a defender, then a precise curling finish into the top corner.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
On a metatextual level, the show is itself a masterful feint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
It's a feint, an effort to scare his opponents into believing his ascension is unstoppable, so they stop fighting him.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
She’s been pestering Joey to teach her to feint and jab.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
War is filled with flopping, feints and trickery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He was just so skilful - it's the feints and rainbow flicks that are etched in your mind.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
It was the culmination of a series of feints and bluffs in the preceding hours and days as the former reality TV star kept the world guessing.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
The narrative is less sucker punch than brilliant feints and jabs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
Marcus feints left with his scim, and when Helene counters, he grins.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Kvaratskhelia feinted to run in behind, then dropped short, then looked to run in behind, dropped short again before eventually running in behind.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Juventus turned the match around completely two minutes later when Vlahović ran onto a through-ball and into the area and feinted his way past Inter defender Danilo D’Ambrosio.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
Lang hammered his entrance like the first hard few drops of an incoming storm and just as quickly feinted into an airy, gentle touch, from the ground to the clouds in an instant.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2021
The battle on film was a sequence of explosive lunges: mauve, black, gold and scarlet feathers flying as the birds leapt, feinted and struck out with talons.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
He feinted and thrust at Chrysaor’s gut, but Chrysaor anticipated the move..
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Bud snaked his way inside, feinting in the middle distance and eating some shots on the way in — but nothing that rattled him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
Harrison hitches his bespoke wagon to that star, and the resulting scandal shows how deftly Korelitz moves as a satirist, feinting in one direction and then delivering a knockout blow in the other.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
Moore for a 10-yard score — a pass made possible by Newton stepping up in the pocket, feinting a scramble to draw in the safety to leave Moore open.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
First, Turnbull slipped after feinting to play the ball out in his own box, and that allowed Mitchel Bakker to square for Hincapie to sweep home the opener on 25 minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
He was oversimplifying here, skittering off there, dodging and feinting.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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