alchemy
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And as she explained her victory, it wasn’t about any special alchemy.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026
"They created a theatre of 750 seats in the round, a democratic arena where the alchemy between actor and audience is at its most purest form and they've created something that still feels fresh today."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Their alchemy was as ineffable as it was infectious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Under Greenspan’s watch, the Fed didn’t blow the whistle on riskier lending practices in which Wall Street used financial alchemy to turn dodgy mortgages into highly rated securities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
He performed alchemy experiments in the kitchen, filling the house with fetid smoke and ruining pots and pans with solid substances that stuck to their bottoms and were impossible to remove.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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“Fire of Love” excavates their unique story, and the jaw-dropping footage the Kraffts left behind, in a film exploding with awe for the mysterious alchemies of love and obsession.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
It’s also a profane hymn to the specific alchemies of fire and metal, to the dark allure of forces that can destroy us no matter how hard we try to bend them to our will.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
“There are no hidden meanings or complicated alchemies that people are hiding from us.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
Equally important are good timing, dumb luck, strange alchemies.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
John had been scarcely a year on the papal throne when he issued this decree forbidding "alchemies" and inflicting a punishment upon those who practised them.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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