magic
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Instead it featured cavorting skeletons, magic acts and water shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
When asked if she would take a magic pill that removed her Tourette's, Cole responds with a firm "no".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Vance seems to know that such a magic trick will be difficult, if not impossible, to pull off in 2028.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
We are also at an age when saving even a little more can have a profound effect 30 years from now, given the magic of compounding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Although there were no sparks or flames, it all looked like magic to me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
These elements can be seen metaphorically in witchy films, where each member of the group represents different magics or general personality traits.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024
SAT-SUN Crafts, minstrels, magics, food, activities, noon-5 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
His putter is not so much a stick as a wand, a thing that magics up birdie after birdie from ever-increasing distances.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2015
Such small magics are easier to come by than significance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The impact of the two magics is creating rainbow-colored sparks of energy that dissolve against the ground.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The play “unfolds as a series of oil paintings magicked into life,” wrote Times critic McNulty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
I eventually got my tickets by ringing on the day and being given the final pair magicked up from somewhere.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
There are bouncy, excitable little partygoers in Act I, of course, and the diminutive dolls who spring to life at midnight as the Silberhaus parlor is magicked into a battlefield.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2022
The parents are taken in by the lavish surroundings, free fancy clothes, and free food that happens to simply appear as if magicked by house elves.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2022
"If someone said I had magicked myself into a boar to kill Robert, likely they would believe that as well."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
There is the all-encompassing “we,” magicking itself into existence whenever everyone online seems to agree on something.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
She was also part of an ancient magicking clan.
From The Verge ● Oct. 26, 2018
Otherwise the Potter play is just creating a grisly resale market, and magicking up profits for secondary ticket websites.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2016
There is a lovely moment when it feels as if the audience have been personally responsible for magicking up the larder through the astonishing power of our thoughts.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2012
What was the good of magicking himself out of his room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it?
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
