hocus-pocus
Example Sentences
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Mentalist and theater artist Vinny DePonto, a bearded, soft-spoken man with gentle eyes, doesn’t want to bamboozle us with hocus pocus.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2022
It will be revealed that Bran is both Brandon the Wall Builder and the Night King by some time travel Three-Eyed Raven hocus pocus.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2019
It's just something, it’s hocus pocus whatever, but you know what I'm saying?
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2018
There’s also an abalone smuggler from South Africa, and a Zimbabwean freedom fighter, and some sci-fi hocus pocus, but the crux of the plot centers on this concept—Nigerians going into space.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2014
Why, I went to see one Mr. Morrison, the hocus pocus man; they said as how he could eat a case knife.
From The Contrast by Tyler, Royall
