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- noun Plural form of
sleight .
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Examples
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I could do a few coin sleights, enough so they didn't kick me out.
We Can Stop at the Magic Store ... Steve Perry 2007
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Tom Coburn and Richard Burr have taken the usual right-wing think-tank-designed buzzwords, deceptive packaging, and sleights of hand, and have taken them to new heights.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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This was my first step toward what I call clear seeing: taking food out of the realm of wishful thinking, wish fulfillment or any of the other emotional sleights of hand I do around food, and seeing exactly how much I was eating.
Dayna Macy: My Top 5 A-Ha Moments Dayna Macy 2011
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This was my first step toward what I call clear seeing: taking food out of the realm of wishful thinking, wish fulfillment or any of the other emotional sleights of hand I do around food, and seeing exactly how much I was eating.
Dayna Macy: My Top 5 A-Ha Moments Dayna Macy 2011
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The Sixteen plot all these musical sleights of hand with great precision and suaveness, even if the results are a little too polished and controlled; there's surely more guts to this music, more earthiness to its rhythms, than these performances admit.
The Earth Resounds: Works by Lassus, Josquin and Brumel – review 2012
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Tom Coburn and Richard Burr have taken the usual right-wing think-tank-designed buzzwords, deceptive packaging, and sleights of hand, and have taken them to new heights.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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But with our economy now founded on fictitious, bubble-based fortunes and sleazy sleights of hand, those who actually make -- or in this case, bake -- anything, are expected to accept stagnating or even declining wages even while the affluent few do better than ever.
Kerry Trueman: No Contract, No Cookies: Is This the Way a Country Crumbles? Kerry Trueman 2011
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Tom Coburn and Richard Burr have taken the usual right-wing think-tank-designed buzzwords, deceptive packaging, and sleights of hand, and have taken them to new heights.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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But with our economy now founded on fictitious, bubble-based fortunes and sleazy sleights of hand, those who actually make -- or in this case, bake -- anything, are expected to accept stagnating or even declining wages even while the affluent few do better than ever.
Kerry Trueman: No Contract, No Cookies: Is This the Way a Country Crumbles? Kerry Trueman 2011
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Tom Coburn and Richard Burr have taken the usual right-wing think-tank-designed buzzwords, deceptive packaging, and sleights of hand, and have taken them to new heights.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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