sleight
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The author also explores the sleight of intellect practiced by Jefferson, a slave owner who deplored slavery and used his rhetorical skills to cast the cause of states’ rights as a question of liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Diomande also showed power and sleight of foot to escape when Ecuador doubled up on him in an attempt to snuff out his threat.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
But Beethoven also questions every sentiment in the Mass. Grandeur can so suddenly turn solemn that it feels almost a ceremonial sleight of hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
The most recent sleight of hand is circular financing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
Satan, in a classic rhetorical sleight of hand, doesn’t directly ask the question his speech hopes to answer.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
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
The building also bears some of the visual sleights of hand borrowed from the industry that helped build it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 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
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