In short order, a child’s magic set gave way to a book by the Catholic priest and amateur magician Padre Wenceslao Ciuró, which laid out the techniques of sleight of hand with cards — Tamariz still performs tricks he learned from it.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/magazine/juan-tamariz-magic.html

It’s all sleight of hand, designed to make us care about a story and characters that don’t exist, so why not embrace that spirit in the execution?

Source: https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/hypnotic-review-ben-affleck-robert-rodriguez-1235551880/

It’s astonishing basketball sleight of hand.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-05-19/lebron-james-the-goat-depends-on-your-criteria

Jokic’s Houdiniesque sleight of hand — he faked a pass into the corner to Michael Porter Jr., then drove to the hoop for the layup — brought the crowd to its feet near the end of the second.

Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/31/nuggets-nikola-jokic-jamal-murray-pace-win-pelicans/

Some sleight of hand is usually necessary.

Source: https://vdare.com/posts/if-jordan-neely-had-been-in-jail-or-an-asylum-daniel-penny-would-not-have-needed-to-risk-imprisonment-to-protect-the-public

They’ve always wanted eyeballs and brains laser focused on only one sleight of hand but at different times because both serve the same purpose in validating the big lie.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/03/no_author/the-illusion-of-a-virus/

This Democrat talking point is a rhetorical sleight of hand since having a lease you can’t drill on is worthless for increasing oil production.

Source: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gregbyrnes/2023/01/31/irs-raises-mileage-deduction-3-times-in-13-months-as-gas-prices-jump-n1666777