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alchemy

[al-kuh-mee] / ˈæl kə mi /


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"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

"It begins with the transfer of gold from the mantle into a melt that eventually forms volcanoes. The alchemy starts long before the metal reaches the surface."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

It was a crash course in storytelling, producing, and understanding the alchemy that propelled so many of Ryan’s shows into the zeitgeist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Second, it is claimed that the doctrine of signs/signatures belongs to ‘low’ disciplines such as medicine and alchemy; no mention is made of the law or theology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“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

Chaat is India’s seemingly limitless genre of snacks, alchemies of sour-sweet, tart and smoky, cooling and incendiary, creamy and crackling.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2016

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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