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voodoo

[voo-doo] / ˈvu du /
NOUN
primarily Afro-Haitian belief system
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Baron Samedi, a shadowy cane-wielding, top-hatted Haitian voodoo figure, slips in and out of the hubbub, with Leonardo Brito’s performance feeling more ad-libbed by the dancer than astutely choreographed by Ms. García.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

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

But the flipside is a whole new medium in which PRs can practise their "voodoo".

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025

Cordelia reads one about a man who gets cursed by a voodoo witch doctor and grows a big red lobster claw on his hand, which turns on him and attacks him.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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