prestidigitation
Example Sentences
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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
Roberts tried to work around this problem through some trademark prestidigitation.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2023
Later, in an act of popcorn-movie prestidigitation, all memory of yet another character is erased.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022
You could argue that this is all prestidigitation, the conjuring of money from nothing.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2021
However, profounder as a poet, he was no match for Poe in what might be termed intellectual prestidigitation.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
