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Noun
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The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025 -
Those concerns were laid bare in the discovery process for the defamation case that Dominion Voting Systems took against Fox over false suggestions of fraud and other chicanery aired by guests on the network.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
19 July 2025
Noun
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The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Maybe Payton’s running the best preseason subterfuge campaign ever to make Estime look bad on film.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
17 Aug. 2025
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Corona del Mar used some trickery to take the lead on the ensuing possession.—
Michael Huntley,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Or, some serious internal trickery.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When accusations of lying are going both ways, who gets to control the truth?—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
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But lying becomes second nature.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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The American people are seeking solace and inspiration from its leaders, not pettiness and skullduggery.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Aug. 2025
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The Poetry Society becomes the Autobiographical Association, whose ridiculous members write their memoirs under the supervision of the director, a snooty character clearly conniving to use their confessions for some sort of skulduggery.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Not to mention Piastri’s overtake on Norris last year at Monza into the second chicane.—
Rob Reed,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Another horizontal measure would be a chicane, or concrete curbs jutting out like triangles into the road, like those near the Kroger in East Nashville.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?—
Gongjie Li,
Discover Magazine,
11 Jan. 2024
Noun
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That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another.—
Casey Marquette,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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