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His new book, "How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters," isn't a how-to for aspiring prestidigitators.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

As a showman, Mr. Brown has none of the smarminess of Las Vegas prestidigitators or carnival hucksters.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2019

These glitzy prestidigitators — not to be confused with the “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” crowd — have returned to Broadway with more patter, more magic, more questionable outfits.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2018

The utterly unrestrained duping of investors, the smug complacency of the great financial prestidigitators are all shown.

From Time Magazine Archive

For what were these ancient manipulators of ideas, prestidigitators of a vanished world of thought, but the forbears of the long line of theorists of whom Fulvia was the last inconscient mouthpiece?

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith