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• n  adroitness in using the hands

• Then in the final pages he performs a bewitching narrative sleight of hand that deepens everything that came before.
• As the former First Couple campaigned together for the first time in Iowa over the Fourth of July holiday week, their agenda was topped by one goal: the political sleight of hand .
• In a brilliant feat of conceptual sleight of hand, he forged a connection between the esoteric formulas of string theory and the rest of mainstream physics.

• dexterity
• manual dexterity

News & Articles

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• 12 old words that survived by getting fossilized in idioms
  Sleight of hand(not "slight of hand" as it's often misspelled) helped the Middle English word "sleight" survive obsolescence
  June 14, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Judd Gregg in The Associated Press
  The American taxpayer should be affronted by this little bit of sleight of hand and gamesmanship,said Sen. Judd Gregg, RN.H. "What a piece of misleading, misdirected financial management this is."
• John Boehner in FOXNews
  We will have to watch closely to ensure the 2010 census is conducted without attempting ...... statistical sleight of hand,said House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
• Richard Blumenthal in Norwalk Plus Magazine
  Blumenthal said, "The FAA flouted federal law by failing to fully consider noise, pollution and other impacts of new flight paths. This plan reflects unfounded assumptions, selective omissions and outright denial of facts. In a sleight of hand, the...