alchemy

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“There’s this great alchemy that’s happened with my career that’s taken off in a way that I never imagined,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

A sprinkle of sporting rivalry gives you the heady alchemy of why Heated Rivalry resonates with long-time BL fans.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

“There’s something that happens with real materiality, real construction, there’s an alchemy to it,” Hawley says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Being surrounded by people you enjoy, eating something sweet, feels like its own small alchemy.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

But if this argument is pressed too far it becomes difficult to explain why, in the eighteenth century, modern chemistry established itself not as a continuation of but as a refutation of alchemy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton