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
  • 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
  • The Cherkasov case also exposed serious lapses in Russian tradecraft.
    Greg Miller, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023

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