alchemy

"They created a theatre of 750 seats in the round, a democratic arena where the alchemy between actor and audience is at its most purest form and they've created something that still feels fresh today."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

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

His attachment to alchemy was no less ardent.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

“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

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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh