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conjuration

[kon-juh-ray-shuhn] / ˌkɒn dʒəˈreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
evocation
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It’s an inward-looking musical conjuration of a city that’s partially vanished — to refugee outflows, to military curfews — and a city that is still, defiantly, standing.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

The staging of the scene was, typically, a last-minute improvisation, a conjuration out of chaos.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2015

I am not capable of that sort of conjuration, and it seems that many others in the media no longer are, either.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2014

But by then the myth of the killer-ape had caught hold and Dart’s conjuration had mesmerised millions.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2012

From the latter, however, in the furious zeal of his conjuration, the cowl fell back, and the curly hair, fluttering in the wind, fell round his head in ringlets, like black snakes.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine


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