abracadabra

Example Sentences

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Unlike sorcerer "Koshchei the Deathless", the Kremlin cannot abracadabra coins out of thin air.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

If retirement funds get to omit the costs of BDCs from their own reported expenses, surely private-equity, venture-capital, hedge funds and other “alternative” vehicles will demand the same abracadabra treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The series’ celebrated technobabble is just a kind of reformulated abracadabra; human characters get the hang of alien gear faster than you could look up how to reset your car’s clock in the owner’s manual.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Two months ago, the state’s highest court nonetheless yelled abracadabra and changed the deadline to Nov. 6, while making postmarks optional.

From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2020

A huge part of me wants to text back abracadabra because that would make such a great line in a movie, wouldn’t it?

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King