alchemy
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I like to think of our solution as a reverse form of alchemy, not an act of destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Still, that particular bit of alchemy never gets old to me.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 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
Their alchemy was as ineffable as it was infectious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Aye; the singular alchemy of transmuting that which mightn’t be, into that which is. ‘
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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
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
Equally important are good timing, dumb luck, strange alchemies.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
In order to prevent this, within a year after his elevation to the pontificate he issued not a bull, but a very different form of document--a decretal--forbidding any "alchemies" of this kind.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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