as in spell
a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power
hovering over the sick child, the witch doctor muttered mysterious incantations
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incantation
Noun
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Under its Venusian spell, beauty, truth and harmony take center stage, but don’t be fooled as the weeks ahead are action-packed.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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Spacey guitar, hypnotic synths and jazzy percussion bubbled under Zardoya's spell-binding vocals.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Russia has yet to provide a comprehensive explanation for the incident, though officials have denied any intentional effort to target Polish territory, an act that could potentially lead to the invocation of NATO's Article 5 mutual defense clause.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The operation was launched as a result of Poland’s invocation of NATO’s Article 4 in response to the Russian drone incursions.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But hallucination can become a curse when language models are applied in domains where the truth matters.—
Byron Cook,
Fortune,
20 Sep. 2025
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But Pavel Zacha, drafted by the Devils sixth overall in 2015 as a centerman but who has bounced between pivot and wing throughout his career, looks at his versatility more as a blessing than a curse.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Incantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incantation. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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