as in chicanery
the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end
most get-rich-quick schemes involve more than a smidgen of chicane
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as in to cheat
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
a lawyer who is so notorious for chicaning that the guilty invariably seek his services
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Recent Examples of chicane
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2026
But there are high-speed areas with tight chicanes that are very challenging.
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
Red Bull driver Isack Hadjar hit the barriers after misjudging a chicane.
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Sahil Kapur,
NBC news,
3 May 2026
Not to mention Piastri’s overtake on Norris last year at Monza into the second chicane.
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Rob Reed,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The village said in its chicane proposal that 167th Street near 76th Avenue has had multiple car crashes into houses at the curve between 76th Avenue and Siemsen Meadows and Centennial Parks since the road was constructed
connecting 80th and Harlem Avenues.
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Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2026
But there are high-speed areas with tight chicanes that are very challenging.
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
Red Bull driver Isack Hadjar hit the barriers after misjudging a chicane.
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Sahil Kapur,
NBC news,
3 May 2026
Not to mention Piastri’s overtake on Norris last year at Monza into the second chicane.
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Rob Reed,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicane
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There’s a tremendous amount of financial chicanery that goes on in 2026.
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Not many people, however, concluded that financial chicanery at executive level should be used as a stick with which to beat the players and coaches who had won those trophies over the years in question.
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The fans were cheated Sunday out of a chance to see an interesting pitching matchup between Shota Imanaga and Dylan Cease, the former Cubs farmhand and former White Sox pitcher.
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For example, a spouse who catches their partner cheating and kills someone in the heat of emotion.
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So, that's a kind of deception.
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The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
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This is not treachery but the truest and noblest affection.
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Peacock’s adventures in treachery The Traitors was the top dog, scoring five prizes including Best Competition Series and Best Host for Alan Cumming.
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Now, though, summer in the south is so brutal that centuries of architectural trickery is being outmatched, and in the north, houses designed to retain heat during the winter have become furnaces in sweltering summers.
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There's no shame, no trickery—just relief and a chance to rebuild your financial stability.
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The Blacks’ defeat would be certain if not for dragons and subterfuge.
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There is a long history of subterfuge at World Cups — a long history of sharing injury information that isn’t exactly transparent or even accurate.
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This includes less dangerous fouls and gamesmanship such as time-wasting and diving.
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Gerry was not alone among the Founders in opposing such political gamesmanship.
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Once there, a combination of Messi’s genius, goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez’s larger-than-life performances, a well-balanced team, and — it must be said — some unsavoury moments of skullduggery by several players, helped Argentina battle their way to the final against defending champions France.
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For this skullduggery-stopping potential, the city paid $67,548, which is in the rough ballpark as what your average cop probably makes annually.
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“Chicane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicane. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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