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Recent Examples of chicanery But also because what happens in Georgia sets the recognizable pattern of political chicanery, disinformation and interference elsewhere. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024 OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers. Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Election integrity crusaders have often sought to cast their efforts as innocent reactions to chicanery in the Democratic Party. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chicanery 
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Noun
  • The series was loosely inspired by the non-fiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World, written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the two journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson’s deception.
    Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
  • One of the great joys of the U.S. version of The Traitors is watching familiar faces across the reality TV map converge in a game of strategy and deception (and, yes, mehrduhr).
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This would be immediately followed by my dad standing up, racing over to my uncle, and sometimes grabbing him by the collar to stop him from completing an action that in their eyes seemed to be an act of utter betrayal and treachery.
    Wayne Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Welcome back for another season full of [Alan Cumming voice] deception, backstabbing and treachery!
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This sequence introduces The Agency as a maze of contradictory nationalist motivations, paranoia-inducing surveillance, and prevalent subterfuge — and, in its hidden center, a love story.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Using a figurehead Then again, Trump might just want to avoid all of these legal subterfuges by following the example of George and Lurleen Wallace.
    Philip Klinkner, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Garcia is quick and adept at carrying the ball into dangerous areas, with his trickery opening space for others to exploit.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In the human realm, at least, equating cuckoldry solely with trickery and the cuckolded as weak and foolish is inaccurate.
    Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The lack of a definitive pronouncement of a starter ahead of the game was likely a move of gamesmanship to keep Atlanta preparing for two quarterbacks.
    Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The play might have worked; but an evidentiary hearing, like a showdown in a game of poker, is where gamesmanship collides with the facts and at its conclusion, all the bluffs are called and the cards lie face up.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Staff are advised to communicate specific allergens rather than divulging entire ingredient lists, maintaining both safety and proprietary secrecy.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The deal happened in almost total secrecy, The Times first hearing rumors of the Lakers and the Mavericks working together on something from a rival executive on Thursday night.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Congressional legerdemain can’t wave away that reality.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Both activities depended on legerdemain and made elaborate use of optical illusions.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

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