How to Use invisible hand in a Sentence

invisible hand

noun
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  • Like an invisible hand, the microwaves hold the car in place.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
  • So what in the name of Adam Smith’s invisible hand is going on here?
    — Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Do nothing and let the invisible hand fix the problem free of charge.
    — T.j. Rodgers, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The front of her throat felt tight, as though an invisible hand was clamping down on her breath.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The invisible hand of climate change is hard at work here.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • And, in fact, my mother-in-law only just learned about the invisible hand two days ago.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Caught by an invisible hand, these fish don't know what hit them.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
  • On most of the 49ers’ big plays against Minnesota, Juszczyk was the invisible hand who drove the play without touching the ball.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
  • At least for some, that Adam Smith invisible hand is working out.
    — Erik Lacitis, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The way Xi's invisible hand is being played up in state media would seem to support this.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The only way for the articles to be self-correcting is not to correct, to let the invisible hand do its job.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Coincidence?
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Aug. 2020
  • At the end of the day, though, the solution isn’t going to be found in policy, or in the invisible hand of the free market, or in the availability of childcare.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • The looming free agency of the game’s premier is the invisible hand guiding the Cavs’ decision-making.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
  • For 15 long seconds, the winds punched through the windows and pelted the people with pieces of trees and homes and dreams, peeled tiles off the ceiling, and tugged at them like a great, invisible hand trying to turn the church inside out.
    — Southern Living, 12 July 2011
  • It’s appealing, on the surface, the idea that the invisible hand of the market should ultimately be in charge to distribute wealth.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • After all, the invisible hand of the market is not designed to nurture and protect democracy.
    — Miguel Padró, Quartz, 6 Jan. 2022
  • A lot of filmmakers work with an invisible hand, stealth wizards behind the curtain.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • After years of paddling against headwinds and currents, the engine felt like an invisible hand pushing the canoe along.
    — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • And, the theory goes, the invisible hand of the market ensures the outcomes for society are optimal.
    — Klaus Schwab, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • And which are being guided by some ominous, invisible hand?
    — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Casavant’s was the invisible hand, slowing pushing the narrative behind the scenes.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2018
  • And these giant smudges of light may be providing fresh evidence of dark matter’s invisible hand.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The invisible hand may be no less naively utopian than collectivism.
    — WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Looping black lines composed of high-tech lights were designed to simulate the flow of ink scrawl across the facades of two new buildings, as though an invisible hand were repeatedly signing the walls.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • While politicians trade press releases on the subject, the practical fate of hate-promoting tech platforms has fallen to the invisible hand of the marketplace.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The invisible hand of the market always finds a way—especially if consumers are willing to compromise a little.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The man shouts up to the loft into which a ladder disappears, and after a minute’s rummage some invisible hand tosses down bundles of fresh stock and a packet of sample invitations.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • The Nielsens are like 'an invisible hand,' one Fox veteran said, pushing everyone in a rightward direction.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The invisible hand may guide some games, but others may resist its hold, trapping players in a never-ending competition for gains forever just out of reach.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2018

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