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magic number
noun as in secret
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
Environmental engineers say a battery that runs at $20 per kilowatt-hour is the magic number for utilities to say goodbye to coal and natural gas—which is where Form Energy hopes to price Big Jim’s final product.
Anyone claiming their program can “balance” your hormones is misleading you, because there’s no magic number that everyone should strive for, and levels vary greatly between individuals and over time.
This magic number was arrived at after one candidate was interviewed separately by 18 different people—and then rejected.
The result was “Three is a Magic Number,” still my favorite Schoolhouse song.
“Three is a Magic Number” becomes stunningly poignant to any couple that welcomes its first child.
“We dickered back and forth and settled on .86 percent, not because it was a magic number,” said Hastert.
The challenger needs 64 or more, and the incumbent, 69 or more, to get to the magic number of 270.
Turning away from the curious throng, Mark cupped his hand, then together they all three peered at that magic number.
The ring becoming seven mountains suggests with its magic number an Oriental origin.
Its letters make up the magic number 365, supposed to represent the number of spirits subject to the supreme being.
Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven.
I speak of Thirteen lands; and thirteen is as it were a magic number in the history of federations.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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