incantation
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“The invocation of national security is not a magic incantation that suspends the rule of law,” they added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
His formula—AI to read life’s grammar, synthesis to write it, authorship of species as the outcome—recurs so often it begins to feel like an incantation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To boost the placement of these companies’ products in AI results, Bailyn’s company plants a sort of magic incantation, known as a “brand authority statement,” on at least 10 websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Chef Anne Burrell had a way of turning instruction into incantation.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
This is my name, and coming from his lips right now it sounds like both an incantation and a cry of disbelief.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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
Stepping into the boat light as a cat Ged set straight the warped boards and rotten pegs, working both with tools and incantations, as he had used to do with Pechvarry in Low Torning.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing incantation
Lord of the Flies
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The Hobbit
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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