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
  • But when one of their daughters suddenly begins suffering from unexplained fainting spells, their choice is shaken and strange twists begin to happen.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This keeps them from being damaged during warm spells that turn cold again.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • With the launch of the Culling Game in the aftermath, 10 colonies from across Japan are transformed into dens of curses as part of a plot orchestrated by the most wicked sorcerer in history, Noritoshi Kamo.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Up ahead, two men argued, their shouts and curses drowning out the hum of a helicopter that circled in the distance.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sorceresses, with their bewitching glamours and their constant meddling in affairs of state, are pariahs of a different kind.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Cantrips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantrips. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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