as in incantation
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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
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As ash rained down on my home in East Los Angeles from the Eaton Fire, so did the online invocations of Didion and Davis on wind and flame.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Nevitt said that the invocation of the Defense Production Act, which can be used to accelerate manufacturing, is also possible.—
Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the cold spell brought Chicago's air temperature down to a bone-chilling minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit on January 21.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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While there is no magic spell to eliminate identity fraud entirely, enhanced address verification can significantly bolster your defenses against it.—
Rob Heidenreich,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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The verdict: Its flavor was nothing short of despicably vile, which made Orly’s nail-biting polish both a gift and a curse along my journey to end my bad habit.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
30 Jan. 2025
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The long-standing curse of the new-music concert is a tendency toward miscellany.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Most of the recipients dismissed the composer as a crank, but a few were spellbound by his transcendentalist conjurations, and a cult began to grow.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
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Theater is a more symbolic space, a conjuration of lights and plywood, which offered Comer a kind of freedom.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2023
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Unless, of course, the writer’s jinx overcomes the tie pin and the palm trees.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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Knocking on wood: This age-old superstition is believed to prevent bad luck or jinxes.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American-Statesman,
13 Sep. 2024
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The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.—
Jé Wilson,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Jan. 2025
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The thought of our freedom to get outside and mingle being suppressed has a foreshadowing of doom that has smothered the enchantment of snow days.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
22 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, the Massachusetts legislature has made efforts over the past four years to clear the names of those accused of demonic sorcery during the Salem Witch Trials, which filled the colony’s courts throughout much of the 1600s.—
Gary Collins,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Jan. 2025
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Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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