feint
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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
Was the "two-week deadline" for negotations a feint?
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
Perhaps this is a feint in some grand art of the deal.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2025
On a metatextual level, the show is itself a masterful feint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
A few minutes later, a small square filled with feint light appeared, hovering in the darkness of the mountainside.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
War is filled with flopping, feints and trickery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Kvaratskhelia's feints cause Stanisic to step up, rendering him unable to track the run in behind.
From BBC ● May 30, 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 film’s feints and twists are fabulous as they explore how the internet’s promise has soured.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
He made two half-hearted feints toward the basket, hoping to catch Ben off balance and get an unchallenged set shot.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The Italian was 0.3secs behind the McLaren crossing the line into the last lap, but although he feinted a move into Tarzan, he was not close enough to make it work.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
At the end of the first half, Brown feinted a drive that rocked Ute defender Both Gach off balance before stepping back for a contested 22-foot three-pointer that splashed through the net as time expired.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 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
Before I could, the student moved in and feinted an edge blow at Nick's legs.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
The senior pulled out to the elbow before feinting right, going left, dusting her defender and streaking to the goal.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 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
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
Jabbing and feinting, he edged sideways, putting the fire between them once more.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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