How to Use legerdemain in a Sentence

legerdemain

noun

• That does not mean the game wasn’t bereft of Brady’s fourth-quarter legerdemain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Some of the legerdemain is how’d-they-do-that pieces of stage magic, while other bits are visual distraction.
  — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2017
• Sarah Palin lost her libel case against the New York Times, but not without some judicial legerdemain.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Others used the moniker as a compliment, owing to his legerdemain.
  — Bruce Nelan, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
• The play spends a little too much time spinning narrative wheels on the legal legerdemain between Derek and Todd.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Yet in the meantime, the legal legerdemain led to immense suffering.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 29 June 2019
• In a bit of legislative legerdemain, the House never adjourned for the day, so Friday is still technically Thursday in the House.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• But even that bit of binary legerdemain involved a relative unknown and took seven days to pull off.
  — Jack McCallum, SI.com, 9 July 2019
• With a conjurer’s legerdemain, Swift slides Jack into the shadows and pushes Ronnie into the spotlight.
  — Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• National Review covered the legerdemain used by Stalin and then again by Putin to fuel their rise to absolute power.
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022
• Doing so would require only a little bit of constitutional legerdemain on the high court’s part.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2018
• The legislative legerdemain needed to craft the multistep procedural agreement and raise the debt limit this year is a sign of the difficulty lawmakers may face on the issue in 2023.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• Words alone cannot express my perplexed admiration for this legislative piece of legerdemain.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The molecules that accomplish prime editing’s genetic legerdemain have three parts.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 21 Oct. 2019
• Kennedy’s feat of legal legerdemain means that the Supreme Court has punted on deciding whether anti-discrimination laws that protect gay Americans must yield to a business owner’s religious tenets.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• Again and unequivocally, no. MLB (rightly) would view such a restructuring as an effort to circumvent the luxury tax and would not permit such accounting legerdemain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• There’s legerdemain aplenty in this designer’s work, as well as romance and an unapologetic femininity, which registers as strength to this designer.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2019
• That legerdemain would be an illusion in the category of the Inflation Reduction Act, which increases inflationary pressures.
  — WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• This bit of conceptual legerdemain functioned as a shorthand for their creative intentions, which were essentially anti-photographic.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
• Political reporters were dazzled by his legerdemain in stealing a traditionally Republican issue, promising more law enforcement on the streets and tougher penalties for juvenile offenders.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
• While the struggle to keep aircraft flying is a commendable exercise in bureaucratic legerdemain and organizational agility, the battle to keep aircraft safe and mission capable is an unsustainable, morale-sapping exercise.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024