feint

The White House didn’t plan to disclose the feint, officials said, until the Washington Post revealed it and sparked a media frenzy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

There is no strict definition of a stutter, but under Fifa rules, a player is allowed to stop or feint during the run-up as long as they don't do it directly before kicking the ball.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The gimmicks are effective, though a bit of a feint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

Perhaps this is a feint in some grand art of the deal.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2025

When the ball came Ben made a violent feint toward the basket which drove Jim Don stumbling backward.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

During the next round, he was spinning David around with his footwork, working feints into elaborate movement patterns to leave David confused.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023

Marcus feints left with his scim, and when Helene counters, he grins.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Elmas feinted past Mamadou Coulibaly on the left side of the area before curling into the far bottom corner.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

The fight begun with both athletes showing patience as Volkanovski feinted and switched stances, while Makhachev looked for openings.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023

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

The Atlanta Hawks guard feinted left and then crossed over sharply to his right, settling into a comfortable pocket between two frozen Milwaukee Bucks defenders.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2021

James feinted slightly to the side, and Edward shifted in response.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The fight started with the Briton pushing forward, as he would throughout the following 25 minutes, feinting and landing leg kicks, while chants of "Colby, Colby" rung out around the arena.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023

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

They envision themselves bobbing and weaving, triangulating and feinting — filling the air with meaningless cliches so that no one knows where they stand and no one can hold them accountable.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 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

Ignatius, feeling just as invisible standing there in Dorian’s living room, began feinting at some imaginary opponent with his cutlass to relieve his self-consciousness.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole