How to Use witchery in a Sentence
witchery
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There are all these girls that are into witchery and tarot and crystals.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Apr. 2017
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With these guidelines in mind, below are a few simple ways to practice kitchen witchery this spooky season.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
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Her family took her to a bhopa, or shaman, who quickly detected witchery.
—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
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Ravn beautifully brings us inside these circles of care, which to many outsiders might have seemed as strange as witchery.
—Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
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Nevena is transformed into a witch by Maria, who casts her young quarry aside after the girl proves inept at witchery.
—Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
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Like the original, the story line centers on a group of young women who don’t fit in, finding solace in one another (and witchery).
—Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
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Pumpkin spice and everything nice—here’s how kitchen witchery can make your home feel more intentional and magical this autumn.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
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In addition to witchery — the three women use their powers to kill a romantic rival — the book is full of local references.
—Julie Tremaine, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
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As feminism becomes the realm of the corporate-speak, many of those in search of outside power are arriving at witches and witchery.
—Sofia Quaglia, Quartz, 31 Oct. 2019
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She is accused of murder, witchery, or both, and his terrified deputies train shotguns at the teen despite her evident helplessness.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
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Rebecca is arrested because neighbors assume mothers pass on witchery to their daughters.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
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In recent years conservative politics and its focus on dismantling women’s rights have summoned a new surge of witchery.
—Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
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The craze for witchery displays an encouragingly wide understanding that for social change to happen someone has to feel threatened.
—Kelsea Stahler, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
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If that’s the level of mystical mysterioso we’re headed towards, then everything else is on the table, too, in terms of time travel, witchery, and whatever else.
—Kelly McClure, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2021
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Other groups feel Trump requires magical protection, and they’ve been spurred on by the rising online presence of anti-Trump witchery.
—Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
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Try an Autumnal Recipe Another simple way to practice kitchen witchery this month is to enjoy an autumnal recipe.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
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Enter kitchen witchery, a practice rooted in modern witchcraft that blends intention, ritual, and everyday cooking.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
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This material witchery is possible thanks to a series of capacitive sensors that are embedded into the concrete.
—Liz Stinson, Curbed, 2 July 2018
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Besides witchery, paganism draws from traditions largely outside the Abrahamic faiths.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
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Just after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun enters the woodsy witchery of Virgo, the cosmos’ original self-seductress.
—Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 19 Aug. 2017
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Baby becomes really fantastical, with witchery and cult societies.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 22 June 2021
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Trained in combat by his father’s henchmen and in mental witchery by his mother, Lady Jessica, Paul masters his harsh surroundings and survives attempts on his life.
—The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
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This is a film about witchery of a sort, though Ezwan has no interest in the kind of over-the-top content usually associated with Southeast Asian films about malevolent spirits.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
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Each iteration slots into the complex order of things known as Stevie Nicks; each era separable but contiguous, all routed through her mild witchery and intense American mysticism.
—Jill Spivey Caddell, Longreads, 26 May 2022
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Argento’s Suspiria used its aesthetic to celebrate a witchery that was inherently otherworldly and stylized, producing a rapturous symphony of violence for its own beautiful sake.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
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