incantation

“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

To establish the right note of terror on a fog-strewn set by Arnulfo Maldonado that resembles the private chamber of a writer or madman, Page begins with Lady Macbeth’s chilling incantation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

Part 1, “Acknowledgment,” features a plodding incantation, first set by Jimmy Garrison’s bass, then played by the saxophone, then intoned in Coltrane’s husky voice: “A love supreme. A love supreme.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

"Weren't you given a magical incantation or something?"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

With dialogue about the nature of the divine, processed incantations and titles such as “The Word Becomes Flesh,” Boards of Canada has spiritual matters in mind throughout “Inferno.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

This ritual lasted an entire night and involved burning small figures made of wax and clay while an exorcist recited specific incantations.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

And, in a concession to modernity, as well as holding up feathers in a blessing for the King, the elder was reading his incantations from an iPhone.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

His words and imaginations were his incantations to the world, and to himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

That required level-five magic, advanced incantations and spells that Spares rarely achieved but Forever Witchlings never ever could.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega