alchemy
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Still, that particular bit of alchemy never gets old to me.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It begins with the transfer of gold from the mantle into a melt that eventually forms volcanoes. The alchemy starts long before the metal reaches the surface."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Ms. Smith encounters this alchemy in Transnistria—a Russian-backed breakaway enclave inside Moldova.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
All of which should add up to a special alchemy at the Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The issue of replication is central to a topic of foremost importance for any understanding of the Scientific Revolution: the demise of alchemy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
Equally important are good timing, dumb luck, strange alchemies.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
Under the name "alchemies," Pope John, as is clear from the rest of the document, meant a particular kind of much-advertised chemical manipulations.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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