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
We may never see a more masterful display of constitutional prestidigitation.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2021
If cooking involves a mastery of prestidigitation — for which Mauro has the hands, “a worker’s hands and an artist’s hands” — it also requires the adoption of a new vocabulary, “a foreign tongue.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2019
Calder’s carefully balanced mobiles floating on gentle breezes and the whirling, carnival-style prestidigitation of Duchamp’s optical Rotoreliefs bear scant resemblance to each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
The human voice is rarely heard within its walls save in connexion with corn, or the ambidextrous prestidigitation of the Wizard of the North.
From Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens
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