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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

The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Diomande also showed power and sleight of foot to escape when Ecuador doubled up on him in an attempt to snuff out his threat.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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

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

The trade agreement might not be such good news, however, as upcoming tech results will be watched for any signs of accounting sleights of hand, Swissquote analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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