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alchemy

[al-kuh-mee] / ˈæl kə mi /


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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Through the chemistry of film comes the alchemy of art.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

“Remember what I told you: the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane.”

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

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

Under the name "alchemies," Pope John, as is clear from the rest of the document, meant a particular kind of much-advertised chemical manipulations.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh




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