cantrips

plural of cantrip, chiefly Scottish

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Noun
  • There’s a little bit of mystery with the spirits, incantations and rituals.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Zed has led invocations for the Idaho Senate and Boise City Council.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Many of those invocations dealt with white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan attacking Black Americans or attempting political violence following the end of slavery in the South and the Civil War.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • My son had to work to follow Jack’s metamorphoses, to track the relationship between the spells and their consequences.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The pair are gifted grimoires at the age of 15, though Asta's is a rare Grimoire of Anti-Magic that negates and repels his opponent's spells.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The source of a zombie outbreak can come from anywhere, including ancient curses and meteorites from space.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That mindset leads to no shortage of delightfully blasé supernatural adventures rife with magic and curses.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
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“Cantrips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantrips. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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