potions

noun

plural of potion
as in drugs
a drink that is meant to have a special or magical effect on someone a potion that is supposed to improve health The hero in the play is given a magic potion so that he will fall in love with the princess. medical potions sleeping potions

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Recent Examples of potions Where would musical theater be without gleaming little prop vials of potions? — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 July 2026 Along the way, visitors can cast spells with a digital wand, brew potions, pot a mandrake, test their Quidditch skills and explore iconic settings like the Great Hall, Hogwarts classrooms, Hagrid's Hut and the Forbidden Forest. — Justin Adams, CBS News, 26 June 2026 It's filled with witchy icons that every spell-caster has to have in their home—broomsticks, spell books, potions, and more. — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2026 And the marketplace tried to sell us car-shining potions, mirror defoggers and kitchen slicers and dicers. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 8 June 2026 What a process of lotions, potions, all sorts of serums, creams and oils, and some techy stuff like an ultrasound peel and cold oxygen bursts. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026 Images of Essiedu’s Snape already appear to capture the potions professor’s foreboding presence, but this casting has triggered a racist backlash online. — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 Related Stories Essiedu is set to play potions master Snape — one of Potter’s nemeses — in the upcoming streaming adaptation, a role previously played by Alan Rickman. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 21 Mar. 2026 Add in a tray for late-night potions—or perhaps just a cozy cup of tea. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potions
  1. drugs
  2. medications
  3. medicines
  4. remedies
  5. physics
  6. pills
  7. tablets
Noun
  • Four people, including a man serving time for murder, have been arrested and accused of smuggling drugs and other contraband into the Pulaski County jail, a news release from the county sheriff's office says.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Follow-up testing found that the street drugs contained high levels of N-methylclonazepam, a benzodiazepine that operates similarly to Xanax or Valium.
    — Scott Maucione, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of drugs
Noun
  • The cost of daily life in Lake Stevens, Washington – fuel, groceries, medications and children’s formula – has added up.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The defense has their own expert witnesses set to testify, setting up the two sides to present conflicting arguments over Lindsay Clancy’s mental state, her medications, and postpartum psychosis.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of medications
Noun
  • In March, BioNTech announced that Sahin and his cofounder and wife Özlem Türeci, the company’s chief medical officer, would depart the company to lead a new biotech focused on developing mRNA medicines.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The only comparable case in the last three years involved Los Nogales, a restaurant in Meeker, which allegedly dispensed antibiotics and non-narcotic cough medicines.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of medicines
Noun
  • The pandemic marked a shift in business because the new storefront was busy with customers looking for natural remedies to fight COVID-19.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • Here’s what consumers should know about the recall, including all affected products and remedies.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 31 July 2026
Definition of remedies
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  • Floating in zero gravity, players slice derelict spacecraft into salvageable chunks, while also contending with unruly physics, pressure, and profit margins.
    — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Indefinite Causal Order Quantum systems often display behaviors that are difficult to explain with classical physics.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
Definition of physics
Noun
  • With that out of the way, suck down some anti-nausea pills, put on a pair of shades, and prepare to be dazzled in all the wrong ways.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The mother of four struggled with obesity and had to take insulin pills and shots daily.
    — Andrew Jones, NPR, 30 July 2026
Definition of pills
Noun
  • The company estimates the tablets have kept millions of tubes out of landfill.
    — Anne Makovec, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Manufacturers now concentrate or synthesize it to far higher potencies then sell it as tablets, gummies, drink mixes, shots and dissolvable strips.
    — Jesse M. Pines, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of tablets

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