smoke and mirrors
Example Sentences
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Gabriel could have come across as a mere cipher in this environment, a faceless spook navigating smoke and mirrors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
"Neuralink is currently just smoke and mirrors, with a lot of hype," Herve Chneiweiss, a neurologist and expert in ethics at France's research organisation INSERM, told AFP.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
Although that was more than 30 years ago, the smoke and mirrors nonsense usually produced by meetings like these has not changed.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025
"That appears to be all smoke and mirrors."
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025
But maybe being able to say “I love you” was just smoke and mirrors compared to having a living being under your fingers.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
