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The fingers of his left hand are pinched on the lid of the vacuum, poised for the prestidigitatorial reveal that will return the dove to life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Entertainers Orson Welles threw up a tent and some tintype booths on a Los Angeles lot and started a brave one-man revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left.

From Time Magazine Archive

With all the new-fangled concoctions from gay New York, besides a few novelties from Paris, and a wonderful assortment of what might well have been called prestidigitatorial achievements!

From What's-His-Name by Fisher, Harrison

This haughty inaccuracy produced an astonishing effect, namely, the prestidigitatorial vanishment of the v-f-g.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)