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voodoo

[voo-doo] / ˈvu du /
NOUN
primarily Afro-Haitian belief system
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“It was like magic the first time we sang together. Like some black magic voodoo sort of vibes,” Evan added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

The Bank of Japan, simultaneously, is scaling back bond purchases, ending a two-decade experiment in financial voodoo.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

Bertrand continues to tinker, and as the misses pile up, I revise my earlier opinion: Aiming a trebuchet is neither art nor science; it’s voodoo.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025

As the graveyard requiem kept escalating in its intensity, I remembered the advice that Clinton gave to Eddie Hazel when he first unleashed that voodoo guitar seance: “Play like your mother just died.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

From my purse I would take out a voodoo doll which Lena had already lent me from her props department.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan




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