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Recent Examples of chicane
Noun
Norris kept out of the wall and made it into the pits for intermediates, but Piastri got stuck in the grass at the final chicane and tumbled out of the points as a result. Luke Smith, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025 According to Mercedes, Monza offers few energy recovery opportunities due to its mix of long straights and chicanes and just three points of heavy braking. Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024 This is where incidents often happen at the end of the DRS zone as cars can go into the chicane side-by-side. Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024 With a festival-like atmosphere in the glow of the Sphere, the T-Mobile Zone at Sphere Stage offers fan activations and unobstructed views of some of the most challenging turns of the race, including turn 5 and through the chicane spanning turns 7 through 9. Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chicane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicane
Noun
  • Mitchell and Evan Mobley overcame San Antonio’s chicanery to win the skills challenge.
    Law Murray, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Read more Opinions in The Hill Op-ed related to energy & environment submitted to The Hill: Gavin Newsom’s climate change chicanery You’re all caught up.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Niemann, a grandmaster, beat Carlsen in an upset in a 2022 match, leading Carlsen to withdraw from the tournament and setting off wild speculation about whether Niemann could have cheated, though no such allegations were ever proven.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Neither team cheats for offense, every inch of ice is hard-earned.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Erosion Of Trust Through Inconsistent Words Many people associate the breakdown of trust with major betrayals like infidelity or deception.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Warrantless search and seizure, deception, untrammeled use of force.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sinners is one of the great vampire movies of the modern age, mining the legend of these perpetual outsiders who desperately yearn to belong, but whose silky promises are rooted in treachery.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But the most intriguing finish—and the most on-brand level of treachery from Heyman—would be Paul stabbing both Roman and Punk in the back for Rollins.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The ability to render the real world using charcoal is utter trickery.
    Emily Wilson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But just try not to be tickled by even the simplest of the show’s trickery, like when a book fallen from a school locker flies right back in.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To the relief of everybody, weeks of rumors/subterfuge/smokescreens/innuendo come to a merciful end.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Courts throughout the country have repeatedly seen through this subterfuge.
    Daniel Wallach, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Psychologist Susan Cain, in Quiet, says introverts thrive in solitude, delivering their best work without the social stimulus overload of open offices and needing to play political gamesmanship.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The characters surrounding Matt embody that gamesmanship.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This year the skulduggery began early and has been raging for week.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Obviously, such a system is rife with uncertainty, and the history of the process is full of skulduggery, both on the club and player side.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Chicane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicane. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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