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cantrips

noun

plural of cantrip, chiefly Scottish

as in incantations

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Halloween Horror Nights fans will encounter demonic forces when Book of the Dead incantations are read aloud inside the newest Evil Dead haunted house coming to Universal Studios Hollywood.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Circe is able, by means of drugs and incantations, to change humans into wolves, lions, and other animals.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026

Definition of incantations

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Richard Brody laments its lack of gods, writing that this modern interpretation neglects a key part of the story and undermines its enchantments.

— Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
These days, many people who love the North Rim speak of it as a lost world, a kingdom whose enchantments have gone up in smoke and whose luster will never be the same.

— New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026

Definition of enchantments

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Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.

— John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer?

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

Definition of invocations

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Not only are sick-leave rates shown to spike during intense hot spells, but health and safety laws in countries such as Italy and Greece oblige workers to actively stop working during peak midday heat.

— Oliver Balch, Fortune, 27 July 2026
Months of dry weather, a record lack of snow in some areas, hot spells and erratic winds have contributed.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

Definition of spells

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Directed by Sébastien Vanicek (2023’s Infested), the follow-up to 2023 reboot Evil Dead Rise stars Wednesday‘s Hunter Doohan in a story about curses lingering too long in a family and the undead that haunts them.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 July 2026
Morgan and her Judgment Day cronies tried to bribe Danhausen to put curses on their opponents.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026

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