hocus

Example Sentences

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“What he did for those 20 hours is hocus pocus,” Richards said in urging jurors to reject consideration of the image.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2021

I don’t speak in delphic tongues or offer holy absolution or perform shamanic hocus pocus; I really don’t do much of anything but sit there, listen and try to tell the truth.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2018

It knows it’s always being upstaged by the hocus pocus of its own medium.

From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2016

Or you could say it was an unintended pulling back of the curtain on all the hocus pocus that goes into healthcare costs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2016

By some hocus pocus of which Comstockery is easily capable it might have been obscene to speak of the digestive process or of any of the digestive organs.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Goldman, Emma