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Recent Examples of incantation The story ends in the village of Hammondsport, where Drew was killed, with a kind of incantation of the cycle of life on Keuka Lake. Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025 Endgame sorceries, mob-melting moves, and ground-shaking incantations can be yours in next to no time. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025 The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Alice draws a circle around Lilia uttering some sort of incantation as Patti LuPone’s witch writhes on the floor in her glittery jump suit and orange coat. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incantation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incantation
Noun
  • For Onana, this spell will be remembered less for his ability than for the gap between promise and reality.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The cosmos is casting a spell this September, and love is as magnetic and transformative as ever.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The president’s unorthodox and unprecedented invocation of IEEPA to impose sweeping duties has been the point of contention at the center of multiple lawsuits brought in recent months.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The invocation appears like a litany after every mass shooting — and the backlash is just as inevitable.
    Peter Smith, Twin Cities, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Now, the princess must gather enough strength from herself and her triplet brothers to undo a curse.
    Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As rocks and curses flew from the street, bullets spat from the middle window on the south side of the house.
    Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Incantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incantation. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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