artifices
- plural of artifice.
Example Sentences
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But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
He was charged with one count of fraud schemes and artifices, one count of theft and two counts of false return in September 2020 and pleaded guilty in the case six months ago.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
He says that forms are artifices that keep us from being authentic.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
Endings are artifices, especially in movies, where the happy ending is a convention so deeply ingrained in mass entertainment that the unhappy ending has become a similarly absurd convention of art-house productions.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 13, 2016
Upset by the news, José Arcadio Buendía stood motionless, trying to rise above his affliction, until the group dispersed, called away by other artifices, and the puddle of the taciturn Armenian evaporated completely.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
