legerdemain
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Mr. Barnes uses his neatly attired Englishness as camouflage for narrative experimentation and legerdemain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The filmmakers indulge in some legerdemain, having the real-life participants recount the events as if certain facts were not already in the open at the time of the interviews.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Poirot reacts to all this legerdemain with a disbelieving scowl, even when he can’t fully explain the hair-raising tricks his eyes and ears are playing on him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Landrieu, however, defends at least some of this semantic legerdemain.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2022
His door stood open to the morning, and he hummed under his breath while his right hand practiced legerdemain.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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