How to Use tradecraft in a Sentence

tradecraft

noun

• There just weren't very many groups that could muster the the resources, the training, the tradecraft to be able to do that.
  — CBS News, 25 Aug. 2021
• And the fact that the FBI was able to do this for so many years is a real tribute to their tradecraft.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2020
• Some of the steps the report describes are similar to the tradecraft that spies use.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 26 July 2022
• And the digital tradecraft, that half life is very short.
  — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2020
• Many of the tradecraft techniques are so old, they were used in Biblical times.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• Three decades ago, the United States spawned, then cornered, the market for hackers, their tradecraft, and their tools.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
• But the quality of the fakes and the surfacing are uninspiring and just bad tradecraft.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2020
• Is there a tradecraft to writing satire, to writing humor?
  — CBS News, 13 July 2022
• The back and forth of tradecraft and signature management.
  — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2020
• To the Clemson researchers, building troll networks in Ghana and Nigeria would be smart tradecraft.
  — CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• People close to Gagosian have sometimes been taken aback by his cloak-and-dagger tradecraft.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Chief among these were the wives of male agents, who often served alongside their husbands, receiving tradecraft training but little to none of the pay.
  — TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
• So did her study of Russian tradecraft, said former CIA officers who know her.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• The name in ink that in no way felt like tradecraft was $102 million pitching pickup Trevor Bauer not only starting for the Dodgers, but throwing three innings.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• The honey trap, as the professionals euphemistically call a liaison in the bedroom, is once again part of the tradecraft taught to new agents.
  — Ash Carter, Town & Country, 14 Apr. 2016
• And, the report says, the hackers routinely relied on advanced tradecraft to cover their tracks.
  — chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• The design of Britain’s quintessential sports car—save for the Gatling guns, ejector seat and other tradecraft tech of the film’s vehicle—was in fact the handiwork of Italians.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2023
• There’s a certain windiness to some of the reflections about aging and about tradecraft, as if Cliché were a language in which one achieves fluency at Quantico.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 June 2022
• But modern Russian tradecraft of the kind Jamali describes, often an extension of the business world, is increasingly at the center of the case.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
• His novels were well received for their narrative drive and their details of espionage tradecraft.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2021
• The semiconductor firms from which Silicon Valley derives its name established the tradecraft for the firms that followed them.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• The senators called agencies’ judgments well supported and their tradecraft strong.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2018
• In the jargon of the CIA, tradecraft is the set of skills spies use to evade adversarial operatives, find new sources and communicate with them securely.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2021
• In the jargon of the CIA, tradecraft is the set of skills spies use to evade adversarial operatives, find new sources, and communicate with them securely.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• When Cozy Bear found these loopholes, no one was especially surprised, given the group’s infinite resources and top-notch tradecraft.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
• What most impressed aficionados of spy fiction, however, was the realism Mr. Matthews brought to the methods of spying itself, or tradecraft.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• At the same time, not all Ukrainian intelligence coups are due to sophisticated tradecraft.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2022
• There’s also storage and organization, the ability to rate recipes and to leave notes on them to the benefit of yourself and others, and a great deal of instruction for those who want to learn better kitchen tradecraft.
  — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• Determining where to dig appears to be as much experience and tradecraft as anything.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Microsoft noted that the Russian attack used new tools and tradecraft in an apparent effort to avoid detection.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2021

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024