sleight

There’s a sleight of hand in this argument, however, according to Edward McQuarrie, a professor emeritus at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in California.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Yet, she added, "I always assume that there's a method to his madness," and many of his loudest actions may in fact be deflections and "sleight of hand."

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

This sleight of hand, Mr. Silvertown explains, was first performed by aquatic bacteria more than three billion years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

There were quieter expeditions ashore, other days, with the Master Herbal who taught the ways and properties of things that grow; and the Master Hand taught sleight and jugglery and the lesser arts of Changing.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

For most of the history of the medium, magicians have entertained audiences through a variety of means, most notably tricks, effects, sleights of hand or illusions of seemingly impossible feats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

For years, he’s kept vampiric hours in his Upper East Side apartment, spending all night practicing sleights and polishing routines.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 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