sleight of hand
Example Sentences
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The most recent sleight of hand is circular financing.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 24, 2025
But, as Kagan exposed, this was a rhetorical sleight of hand.
From Slate • May 15, 2025
Alex Mitchell provided the speed at the breakdown to manoeuvre the Clermont defence, while Smith's control and sleight of hand behind him enticed his outside runners to carry hard and breach the gain-line.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025
Ritter’s novel, which she co-wrote with Lindsay Jamieson, is all clever misdirection and twisty sleight of hand, as identities dissolve and mutate, and the big score is an elusive mirage.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025
They watched his dealing more closely, mistaking his clumsiness for a cardsharp’s sleight of hand.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
