potion
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Let’s just say it made me look forward to a glass of my pre-colonoscopy potion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"I don't have a magic potion that I can give to member states" -- especially, she said, the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council -- so that "everybody's friends."
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
So spend a little time in the Witch’s Cottage, and maybe you’ll start to imagine that cocktail is a potion, and those deviled eggs did in fact hatch from a dragon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
"Felix Felicis!" said one comment, a reference to a potion in the series that makes the drinker lucky for a period of time.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
Babulya handed a small stoneware vial to the domovoi, and he ladled some of the potion into it.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2024
In a widely condemned practice, some traditional healers use body parts to make potions, claiming they can cure people of illnesses or improve their fortunes.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
“They had to be an extension of her but also like they each had a life of their own, going for potions or wrapping around Ariel’s neck.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
One end is indistinguishable from the other, both producing the mucus from which its name is derived and which is sometimes used to thicken potions.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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