sleight
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The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bellingham showed superb sleight of foot in the build-up to England's second goal.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
A final section uses a sort of metaphysical sleight of hand to blend the two eras, but once again something doesn’t quite connect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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
In one of several misleading rhetorical sleights, Ms. Goldstein credits the materialist focus of Greek philosophy with inventing the secular, a modern concept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Otis rebuffed San Francisco’s sleights in the same way Lynyrd Skynyrd responded in “Sweet Home Alabama” to Neil Young’s anti-Southern insults: by “singin’ songs about the Southland.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
It’s fitting that the artist has taken a class on magic, and that he continues to read up on the subject; behind his playful sleights of hand is a rigorous artistic practice.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
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
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