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Noun
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One is inclined to ask how much chicanery, deceit, deception and outright lying one must absorb before ending one’s allegiance to that party.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
2 June 2025 -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This year the skulduggery began early and has been raging for week.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Norris initially overtook Piastri on the hairpin, but Piastri reclaimed the position on the long straight and into the final chicane.—
Sahil Kapur,
NBC news,
16 June 2025
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The second portion of the chicane was widened, allowing different racing lines to be taken.—
Madeline Coleman,
The Athletic,
22 Aug. 2024
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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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The key players in these cycles are Earth's obliquity, the precession of its rotational axis and the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Against his mother’s advice, John Jr. dug into the family lore, unearthing all manner of fraudulence—enough to inspire this book.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Don Draper is his own brand of sad dad: the ’60s family patriarch whose existential crisis sends him bouncing between absurd heights of self-confidence and heartbreaking lows of absolute fraudulence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Apr. 2025
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The character Satine in the musical is less of a victim of the manager’s demands and chooses to use her feminine wiles to make money for the club, which is her artistic home.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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Unlike the bodega bag or admission to the Metropolitan Museum, parking, with enough wiles and time, can still be had for free.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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