feint
Example Sentences
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Was the "two-week deadline" for negotations a feint?
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025
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
Lamm slipped in another feint, which was to raise the question of whether Greenblatt is sufficiently engaged with Jewishness to merit a defense from antisemitism.
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2023
He let the man in black feint and dodge and try a hold here, a hold there.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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