feint
Example Sentences
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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
There’s also something of a feint in the film’s title, which suggests a journey, or at least an endpoint.
From Washington Post
Its feints, dodges and sometimes outlandish observations courted autobiographical self-aggrandizement.
From Los Angeles Times
Within hours, U.S. intelligence officials let it be known the pullback was false, a deliberate feint designed to mislead the United States and the West.
From Washington Times
As with so many of Russia’s recent provocations, Mr. de Waal said, it is difficult to say whether such statements are intended to telegraph, or merely feint at, a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
From New York Times
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