prestidigitation

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Still, the biggest act of prestidigitation is yet to come, and actually occurs after Pence provides his proof texts.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023

You could argue that this is all prestidigitation, the conjuring of money from nothing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2021

We may never see a more masterful display of constitutional prestidigitation.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2021

As in Mr. Tiffany’s “Harry Potter” production, such effects are achieved through purely theatrical means of prestidigitation, with an often bare stage mottled into multidimensionality by Paule Constable’s lighting.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2018

A perfect technic is more than a wonderful power of prestidigitation, or facility in the manipulation of an instrument.

From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William