prestidigitations

But it takes a genius, like Ferran Adria at El Bulli or Grant Achatz at Alinea, to make such prestidigitations work consistently on the palate.

Tiny Spaces, Big Ideas 2008

One month later Cynthia Cooper exploded the bubble that was WorldCom when she informed its board that the company had covered up $3.8 billion in losses through the prestidigitations of phony bookkeeping.

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His prestidigitations were mindbogglingly entertaining, with no slippage to get my mind even in the crack of what he was doing.

wench77 Diary Entry wench77 2003

Now a funeral, being unavoidable, cannot by an prestidigitations of logic be called perverse.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

With his fingers on the key he executed some mysterious prestidigitations, wrote down some words, and came to the wicket again.

The Major Ralph Connor 1898

One month later Cynthia Cooper exploded the bubble that was WorldCom when she informed its board that the company had covered up $3.8 billion in losses through the prestidigitations of phony bookkeeping.

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The central limit theorem and other prestidigitations can't buy you a reprieve from Nyquist violations.

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It coudl well be that the “divergence” problem is created by Hansen’s prestidigitations, which are the subject of this blog.

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