sorcery
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To HBO, this “Game of Thrones” spinoff is a bridge between its lucrative sword, sorcery and old magic high fantasies.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Watch Mansfield Town's Louis Reed produce "set-piece sorcery," scoring a sensational free-kick to stun Premier League side Burnley as the League One side reach the FA Cup fifth round.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Ubaldo Vitali declares gold to be “vulgar,” and the silver upon which he performs his sorcery to be the most beautiful precious metal in the world, one that reflects light like no other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
For Nancy it’s a kind of sorcery — to transform something with your bare hands, to will and work a space into being more beautiful than it was before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
And since we were not-friends, I couldn’t ask for the secret to her hair sorcery and put an end to my suffering.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries."
From Time Magazine Archive
The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them.
From Time Magazine Archive
With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
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The House of Hades
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A Mango-Shaped Space
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Prince Caspian
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