magic
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I spent years looking for a magic pill.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
On the island, where most of the movie takes place over a single day, the girls scramble to find a magic sand dollar that will return them to their world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Expecting the modern, single-camera version of “A Different World” to recapture the multi-camera original’s magic is unreasonable.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Let's see, hopefully we can create some magic along the way. Let's write a new story."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I could feel the magic of it spreading over the mountain, sinking into the ground, and running right up through my feet, bursting with power and fateful glory.
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
How many other magics were there that she had no idea about?
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
There was a pause in which Mrs. Weasley magicked the empty plates onto the work surface and served apple tart.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
The cook, a trow named Wattle, ignores me and continues magicking the parsnips to chop themselves.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
