sleight
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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
It’s a statistical sleight of hand to conclude from this that old age is what causes bull markets to end, however.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
A sleight of hand fills the Times piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The case turns on a sleight of hand. and once you see it, you’ll spot it everywhere.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
He’d never lost his love for sleight of hand, and he graduated from palming coins to cards, cups, wallets, and watches.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
The trade agreement might not be such good news, however, as upcoming tech results will be watched for any signs of accounting sleights of hand, Swissquote analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Otis rebuffed San Francisco’s sleights in the same way Lynyrd Skynyrd responded in “Sweet Home Alabama” to Neil Young’s anti-Southern insults: by “singin’ songs about the Southland.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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
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