alchemy

"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

All of which should add up to a special alchemy at the Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

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

The man was speaking the language of alchemy.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

“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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)