sleight

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

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

The author also explores the sleight of intellect practiced by Jefferson, a slave owner who deplored slavery and used his rhetorical skills to cast the cause of states’ rights as a question of liberty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

This sleight of hand directly undermines the intended safeguards in federal law.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

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

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

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

Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

For most of the history of the medium, magicians have entertained audiences through a variety of means, most notably tricks, effects, sleights of hand or illusions of seemingly impossible feats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

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