abracadabra
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Unlike sorcerer "Koshchei the Deathless", the Kremlin cannot abracadabra coins out of thin air.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
If retirement funds get to omit the costs of BDCs from their own reported expenses, surely private-equity, venture-capital, hedge funds and other “alternative” vehicles will demand the same abracadabra treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Two months ago, the state’s highest court nonetheless yelled abracadabra and changed the deadline to Nov. 6, while making postmarks optional.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
During one upcoming scene, as the pair displays wand skills with Daniel Radcliffe, Robinson plays to every lens, dashing across the stage and tumbling over the furniture to make the most of every abracadabra.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2019
It was Dee who invented the word abracadabra.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
Photograph: John Giles/PA With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2012
The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition there were all kinds of superstitious designs, alchemistic abracadabras and symbols, in which no man of sense any longer believes.
From The Tower of Dago by Mór Jókai
