How to Use tradecraft in a Sentence

tradecraft

noun
  • There just weren't very many groups that could muster the the resources, the training, the tradecraft to be able to do that.
    — CBS News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Some of the steps the report describes are similar to the tradecraft that spies use.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 26 July 2022
  • Many of the tradecraft techniques are so old, they were used in Biblical times.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • People close to Gagosian have sometimes been taken aback by his cloak-and-dagger tradecraft.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • But the quality of the fakes and the surfacing are uninspiring and just bad tradecraft.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2020
  • She’s never worked in intelligence, carried a badge, or been taught tradecraft.
    — Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • And the fact that the FBI was able to do this for so many years is a real tribute to their tradecraft.
    — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • His novels were well received for their narrative drive and their details of espionage tradecraft.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2021
  • And, the report says, the hackers routinely relied on advanced tradecraft to cover their tracks.
    — chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Three decades ago, the United States spawned, then cornered, the market for hackers, their tradecraft, and their tools.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Chief among these were the wives of male agents, who often served alongside their husbands, receiving tradecraft training but little to none of the pay.
    — TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The senators called agencies’ judgments well supported and their tradecraft strong.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • Nemes does not give us any time to figure out who’s who and, really, what’s happening, but watching all this furtive tradecraft is compelling enough.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
  • And great Americans, the tradecraft of America is going to fix them, is going to work on them.
    — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • But our journalist heroes are on a mission, mercenaries of their tradecraft.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Determining where to dig appears to be as much experience and tradecraft as anything.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
  • So did her study of Russian tradecraft, said former CIA officers who know her.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
  • To the Clemson researchers, building troll networks in Ghana and Nigeria would be smart tradecraft.
    — CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The honey trap, as the professionals euphemistically call a liaison in the bedroom, is once again part of the tradecraft taught to new agents.
    — Ash Carter, Town & Country, 14 Apr. 2016
  • The tradecraft and pinpoint accuracy is nothing short of astounding.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2020
  • At the same time, not all Ukrainian intelligence coups are due to sophisticated tradecraft.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2022
  • The Cherkasov case also exposed serious lapses in Russian tradecraft.
    — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Microsoft noted that the Russian attack used new tools and tradecraft in an apparent effort to avoid detection.
    — New York Times, 28 May 2021
  • Trained in the technical side of tradecraft, Tal’s put through a trial-by-fire working alongside a team of veteran operators.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Daniel Silva, the spy novelist, is as well known for his knowledge of international politics as for his knowledge of tradecraft.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2025
  • When Cozy Bear found these loopholes, no one was especially surprised, given the group’s infinite resources and top-notch tradecraft.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The semiconductor firms from which Silicon Valley derives its name established the tradecraft for the firms that followed them.
    — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a certain windiness to some of the reflections about aging and about tradecraft, as if Cliché were a language in which one achieves fluency at Quantico.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • The new policy shift, former officials say, could help combat that challenge by building geographical experts over the long term — and helping field them in the right places with the right tradecraft.
    — Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
  • But modern Russian tradecraft of the kind Jamali describes, often an extension of the business world, is increasingly at the center of the case.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017

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