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

All these extraordinary manœuvres cannot be attributed to prestidigitation.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille