legerdemain

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We also meet Malini the Magician, about whose tricks and feats of legerdemain “stories are still told, with a true sense of awe, by some of the world’s greatest magicians.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

There is studio photography by the artists of legerdemain, such as the Malians Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Landrieu, however, defends at least some of this semantic legerdemain.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

It is a branch of legerdemain, but it has to be closely studied to gain perfection.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock