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incantation

[in-kan-tey-shuhn] / ˌɪn kænˈteɪ ʃən /


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“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Latvian folk band Tautumeitas took a more ethereal approach with their close-harmony incantation Bur Man Laimi, which literally translates as "a chant for happiness".

From BBC • May 15, 2025

The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

Part 1, “Acknowledgment,” features a plodding incantation, first set by Jimmy Garrison’s bass, then played by the saxophone, then intoned in Coltrane’s husky voice: “A love supreme. A love supreme.”

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding




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