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presto as in:  played presto

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  • Presto, the black Ministerial Alliance, which had backed Ryan in the past, switched over to Lawton.†  (source)
  • He reaches behind Carmine's ear, and—"Presto," he says, handing him the penny.†  (source)
  • He bad begun with one play and it had somehow turned into another, presto-chango.†  (source)
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  • For example, if you are about to run a race, you visualize yourself running the race and crossing the finish line first, and presto!†  (source)
  • The whole class cracks up, and while Mr. Rosa is trying to calm everybody down ... I sneak out ... ...and PRESTO!†  (source)
  • They then go flashing down the wire that leads right into the back of the television set, and in there they get jiggled and joggled around until at last every single one of those millions of tiny pieces is fitted back into its right place (just like a jigsaw puzzle), and presto!†  (source)
  • Bilbo slowed down, and then hey presto!†  (source)
  • Presto: Operation Junk Pile was born.†  (source)
  • But now he had only to push aside a brick, dig his fingers into the chink—and presto!†  (source)
  • "Sarà inverno presto," the old woman said.†  (source)
  • The garishly colored, manically blinking lights along the midway were joined by the grating sounds of emphatic music metallically erupting out of an excess of loudspeakers-calliopes presto, marches prestissimo.†  (source)
  • How could it be, in the real world, that a knife moved an inch in the wrong direction could — presto — transform everything?†  (source)
  • That instant the stricken whale started on a fierce run, the line swiftly straightened; and presto!†  (source)
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