sleight

Example Sentences

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The most recent sleight of hand is circular financing.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 24, 2025

The dialogue is naturally digressive, sliding in just as much exposition as needed with a magician’s sleight of hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

But that narrative is also a sleight of hand.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2025

But, as Kagan exposed, this was a rhetorical sleight of hand.

From Slate • May 15, 2025

But what seem to be supernatural events are really sleight of hand.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner