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Recent Examples of chicane
Noun
As the pair battled for the lead, Verstappen cut across a chicane which the race stewards deemed had given him an unfair advantage. Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025 Drop in a couple of chicanes and Homestead’s road course was ready to go. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025 Your best chance is at the Casio triangle, the chicane between 130R and the final corner that leads onto the start-finish straight. ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025 Improvements were made to the stretch of road along Kootenai Street where Wyatt was hit, including adding chicanes to slow down cars, a new sidewalk and wider bike lanes. Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chicane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicane
Noun
  • Despite the chicanery, this is a solid deal for a phone that isn’t wildly different from the Pixel 9.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Given the lawfare that tracks the uncertainty of our moral foundation, Henry Johnson is more pertinent than Oleanna, Mamet’s prophesy of the chicanery in the Me Too movement.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • President Donald Trump's rapid pullback of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans at least $18 billion in higher fees and lost compensation for consumers allegedly cheated by major companies, according to an analysis released Tuesday by two organizations.
    Douglas Gillison, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • But they didn’t get cheated this spring, not with three rousing blasts from the past: Against the Pistons, against the Celtics, against the Pacers.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • This stylization gives her a veneer of being disarmingly kind; but ultimately, is a form of deception that caused Sophie to fatally trust this person.
    Tiffany Leigh, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Codenamed Operation Midnight Hammer, the overnight mission relied on deception, aerial refueling, and near-total radio silence to hit Iran's Fordo and Natanz enrichment facilities—sites that had withstood weeks of sustained Israeli attacks.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The six-parter, to debut July 14, follows six groups of friends, and six historical cases of murder and treachery among them.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
  • But amid the bloodbaths and treacheries, Westeros still penciled in time for a little romance — some more compelling than others (Jon and Ygritte > Jon and Daenerys).
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That trickery only works when the players understand the layers of the system on a detailed level.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2025
  • This trickery is a cost-saving measure in that the orchid does not have to manufacture nectar or prodigious amounts of expensive pollen.
    The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • The facility had been subject to sabotage and subterfuge by Israel for many years even before these attacks–including a computer virus that wrecked the centrifuges over a decade ago.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • When the magazine writer Dylan (Daryl Wein) and his girlfriend and photographer, Lucy (Abigail Cowen), descend upon the rocker Milo (Jack Farthing), there’s subterfuge afoot.
    Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • He’s arguably been Florida’s best player in this Stanley Cup Final run, scoring 15 goals through 22 games, on top of his usual gamesmanship and physical antics.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • Mike McCabe, the veteran gaming industry executive who heads the EWC Foundation, explained how gamesmanship would influence every aspect of the event.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • From encounters with mermaids, the devil and even Robin Hood to themes of superstition and skulduggery, these short tales are perfect escapism to dip in and out of during your summer vacation.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
  • This year the skulduggery began early and has been raging for week.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Chicane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicane. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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