as in deception
the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end
that candidate only won the election through chicanery
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Recent Examples of chicanery
Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
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Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Election integrity crusaders have often sought to cast their efforts as innocent reactions to chicanery in the Democratic Party.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
For this election, McDonnell could continue to resist his party’s entreaties, or Harris could win enough Electoral College votes to make any chicanery in Nebraska moot.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Election integrity crusaders have often sought to cast their efforts as innocent reactions to chicanery in the Democratic Party.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
For this election, McDonnell could continue to resist his party’s entreaties, or Harris could win enough Electoral College votes to make any chicanery in Nebraska moot.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicanery
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This is a game of deception after all, and everyone is in on it.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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The paper adds to a small but growing body of evidence that today’s most advanced AI models are becoming capable of strategic deception.Billy Perrigo, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
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Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the past, Yellowstone characters have pulled off relatively elaborate acts of subterfuge and scheming with multilayered plans that need lots of arguing and surprise twists and time — like, several episodes’ worth of time.Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
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This content, much of it clearly generated by AI rather than intended to deceive—a medium of crude self-expression, not sophisticated subterfuge—may have been the technology’s biggest impact on the 2024 presidential election.Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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There are many reasons beyond cheating and skulduggery that someone might root or modify their Android device.Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
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And so the tale of how the Giants established themselves at the Polo Grounds is told, accurately enough, as a piece of complicated capitalist skulduggery in which the team’s desperate owner bought a controlling interest in the Baltimore Orioles and then dragged its stars north.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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The company summoned all its acoustical trickery to target the sound so that music and podcasts almost seem to appear in your head for intimate yet airy performance.Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2024
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But sometimes, all that’s required to open up a room is a little visual trickery: A coat of paint in the right shade can instantly make even the most cramped kitchen feel airy and bright.Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
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The political machinations on the right and left appear little more than gamesmanship.Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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Some might suggest that peddling ideas of heroic viticulture is akin to marketing gamesmanship, that the consumer is forced to foot the bill for wines produced too far from the tenets of entrepreneurship and economies of scale.Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Report’s release marks end to drama on Capitol Hill Monday’s release of the report marks the end of a weeks-long drama surrounding whether the panel, which typically conducts its work in secrecy would release its findings.Emily Brooks, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
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In a mission veiled in secrecy, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending a military Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite to a medium orbit about 12,000 miles above Earth, Space News reports.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
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Congressional legerdemain can’t wave away that reality.Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Both activities depended on legerdemain and made elaborate use of optical illusions.Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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