alchemy
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Their alchemy was as ineffable as it was infectious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Ms. Smith encounters this alchemy in Transnistria—a Russian-backed breakaway enclave inside Moldova.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
In a collection of his reviews, “Big Screen, Little Screen,” I was struck by the way he elucidates the alchemy of Page’s acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The boy was becoming more and more convinced that alchemy could be learned in one’s daily life.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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“Fire of Love” excavates their unique story, and the jaw-dropping footage the Kraffts left behind, in a film exploding with awe for the mysterious alchemies of love and obsession.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
It’s also a profane hymn to the specific alchemies of fire and metal, to the dark allure of forces that can destroy us no matter how hard we try to bend them to our will.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
“There are no hidden meanings or complicated alchemies that people are hiding from us.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
Chaat is India’s seemingly limitless genre of snacks, alchemies of sour-sweet, tart and smoky, cooling and incendiary, creamy and crackling.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
It is the spirit of the Battalion, something compounded by the subtle alchemies of the spiritual world out of the individual souls of officers and privates alike.
From The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 by Arthur, John W.
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