hocus-pocus
Example Sentences
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It's just something, it’s hocus pocus whatever, but you know what I'm saying?
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2018
“Dew manipulated the slides. The one clue we couldn’t figure out was the placard, but they played hocus pocus with the placard. We were given something that had been altered.”
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2017
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
My sensitive, pale, unathletic, bookish uncle rebuffed and resented the male intruder, and when he was an adult I remember him ranting and raving against psychiatrists and their fraudulence, their unscientific hocus pocus.
From Slate • May 22, 2012
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
