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legerdemain

[lej-er-duh-meyn] / ˌlɛdʒ ər dəˈmeɪn /


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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

That focus leaves Picasso in slight shadow, gives Braque his fair due and crowns a new champion of media monkey business and painterly legerdemain.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

That does not mean the game wasn’t bereft of Brady’s fourth-quarter legerdemain.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2022

He amazed everyone with his feats of legerdemain.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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