incantation
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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
The culprit for the incantation was the image of the now emblematic Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth,” flaunting eyes on his palms on the back cover of the DVD.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
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
Now, it sounds more like a utopian incantation: read it aloud three times on a hill under moonlight and perhaps it will come true.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025
Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Vocabulary lists containing incantation
Lord of the Flies
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The Hobbit
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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