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Recent Examples of incantation Endgame sorceries, mob-melting moves, and ground-shaking incantations can be yours in next to no time. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025 The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 These works evoke the votive sculptures of ancient Egypt, where animals garnered more reverence than they do now, were seen as perhaps incantations of gods. Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024 Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet. Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incantation
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Noun
  • That’s hardly unique for this team but rectifying it is imperative; Le Bris’ side were well organised last season but will need to upgrade their ability to withstand long spells of pressure this year.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • In exploring some of the ways that LLMs work and what that brings to business, McKay talked about trust, using the example of early spell check tools evolving into autocorrect, and suggesting that businesses should build up to more extreme disruptions.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The ceremony opened with an invocation and prayer by Alan Clark, chaplain of Laguna Woods American Legion Post 257, honoring the more than 1 million military fatalities since the Revolutionary War in 1775.
    Anita Gosch, Oc Register, 1 June 2025
  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has no prayer, invocation or moment of silence at the start of school board meetings.
    Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Because perhaps heartbreak is not only a curse, but also a language.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • His thought that autism is a curse that destroys families IS the tragedy.
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2025

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“Incantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incantation. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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