noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Miller's financial sleight of hand resulted in the loss of $2 million in tax revenue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the empirical evidence in favour of accuracy order can now be shifted by sleight of hand in support of the notion of natural acquisition.
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Create impressive graphic designs on your walls; all it takes is courage and a little sleight of hand .
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For us this ad is emotional sleight of hand , not proof of progress.
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I planned to switch them when we got here - just sleight of hand , you know.
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It would not be easy to effect the transition that Labour suggests by Government sleight of hand .
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The nagging suspicion of sleight of hand merely adds to her mystique.
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The word sleight for most of us probably never occurs outside sleight of hand .
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They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another.