prestidigitation
Example Sentences
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You could argue that this is all prestidigitation, the conjuring of money from nothing.
From Los Angeles Times
I can see giddy children dazzling parents with this bit of classic prestidigitation.
From Washington Times
Knowing remote prestidigitation could work, I spent the two weeks after booking my ticket to “The Present” lurking and squinting and nervously participating online and on the phone, exploring how.
From New York Times
He made that putt—and had done the kind of stroke-saving prestidigitation—a precise iron shot followed by a precise putt—that helped him win the Masters and U.S.
From Golf Digest
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
