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Six example sentences with chicanery, each labelled with its topic.
The appeal turned on chicanery in jury selection, where one side had quietly struck every juror from a single district.
Law
Redrawing the district map at midnight struck voters as chicanery, and turnout at the next council meeting tripled.
Politics
Colonial charters were often won by chicanery, with rival agents filing forged petitions in London while the settlers waited.
History
The quarterly numbers looked fine until an auditor traced the chicanery: losses parked in a subsidiary nobody had consolidated.
Finance
The recruiting scandal came down to chicanery with transcripts, grades quietly altered so a star center could stay eligible.
Basketball
The tournament banned him for chicanery, a modified controller that fired three inputs from a single press of one button.
Gaming
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