magic
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"I'm not the man for the answer on the schedule, I just like to magic another week of the year somewhere!"
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Here the magic number is all-electric range: an EPA-estimated 52 miles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
"But there's no magic pill to improve brain health."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the real magic comes when you don’t actually spend that HSA money on your current medical bills — instead putting more money into the account, investing it and letting it grow.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the magic was closing in on both of us.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
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How many other magics were there that she had no idea about?
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
“Leopoldstadt,” which is at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre in a production directed by Patrick Marber, unfolds as a series of oil paintings magicked into life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
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
"Do you mean to suggest that Ser Cortnay was magicked to his death?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Zidane went away, came back, risked that legacy and somehow managed to be better than before, even magicking a clásico goal out of Mariano, for goodness’ sake.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2020
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
The lamps the riders carry illuminate the silhouettes of the dead, magicking them into lumbering caricatures of humanity.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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