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Her example teaches us how such practices can protect innocent people while preventing political chicanery from undermining faith in the American system of governance.—
Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made by History,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025 -
There will be years of political infighting, courtroom battles, and financial chicanery.—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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With a bit of guidance, navigating between the classic go-to’s and the newer dining options are scattered throughout the properties can lead to incredible culinary discoveries, plenty of popping champagne bottles and even a dash of historical subterfuge.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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This sequence introduces The Agency as a maze of contradictory nationalist motivations, paranoia-inducing surveillance, and prevalent subterfuge — and, in its hidden center, a love story.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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That would have been a stupid question just about anywhere else, but the exhibition was by Laura Owens, a painter with a penchant for trickery, and the venue was Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, whose press release for Owens’s latest outing offered little in the way of explanation.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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Astounding transformations, in which one character takes on the appearance of another, will leave you wondering how the trickery was pulled off.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Obviously, such a system is rife with uncertainty, and the history of the process is full of skulduggery, both on the club and player side.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products.—
Andrew Rosenblum,
Popular Science,
26 Dec. 2024
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According to Mercedes, Monza offers few energy recovery opportunities due to its mix of long straights and chicanes and just three points of heavy braking.—
Madeline Coleman,
The Athletic,
29 Aug. 2024
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This is where incidents often happen at the end of the DRS zone as cars can go into the chicane side-by-side.—
Madeline Coleman,
The Athletic,
29 Aug. 2024
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Because of these wobbles, Earth’s obliquity isn’t perfectly fixed.—
Gongjie Li,
Discover Magazine,
11 Jan. 2024
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So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?—
Gongjie Li,
Discover Magazine,
11 Jan. 2024
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But there’s less Cocteau in Corbet (and Brody’s Toth) than an unseemly willingness to perpetuate the fraudulence that overwhelms Millennial cinema.—
Armond White,
National Review,
24 Jan. 2025
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This particular set of islanders seemed immune from the usual unscripted television fraudulence; their sincere reactions to romantic heartbreak and platonic betrayal accurately reflected the emotional rollercoaster of modern dating.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Dec. 2024
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The crowd is made up of hard-core skiers and riders undeterred by the wiles of nature or the perils of big-mountain skiing.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2025
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Several leaders have put out appeals to get funding for salaries related to the PEPFAR program, wile others have terminated staff running their HIV programs, the head of a non-profit told the Miami Herald.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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