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magic

[maj-ik] / ˈmædʒ ɪk /


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"I don't know how you do it. I believe in magic but I loved it," Mel B said when giving her verdict, which was a yes.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Hiddleston knows something about magic and time travel.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

After more than three and a half years on the show, he announced in July that he was leaving to focus on magic.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

And give your oven plenty of time to preheat: Cold pastry meeting strong heat is where the magic happens.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

The magic was inside me and outside me, in everyone and everything.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

These elements can be seen metaphorically in witchy films, where each member of the group represents different magics or general personality traits.

From Salon Oct. 19, 2024

SAT-SUN Crafts, minstrels, magics, food, activities, noon-5 p.m.

From Seattle Times Jul. 21, 2017

His putter is not so much a stick as a wand, a thing that magics up birdie after birdie from ever-increasing distances.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2015

Such small magics are easier to come by than significance.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I used Nansi’s divine magics to save you. Which means that the god now has a homing beacon. One that shows him exactly where we are.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

I eventually got my tickets by ringing on the day and being given the final pair magicked up from somewhere.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2023

“Leopoldstadt,” which is at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre in a production directed by Patrick Marber, unfolds as a series of oil paintings magicked into life.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 2022

There are bouncy, excitable little partygoers in Act I, of course, and the diminutive dolls who spring to life at midnight as the Silberhaus parlor is magicked into a battlefield.

From Washington Post Nov. 24, 2022

The parents are taken in by the lavish surroundings, free fancy clothes, and free food that happens to simply appear as if magicked by house elves.

From Salon Jan. 20, 2022

She looked at Victor expectantly, as if he could conjure up Prosper like he'd magicked Bo out of nowhere.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

There is the all-encompassing “we,” magicking itself into existence whenever everyone online seems to agree on something.

From New York Times Feb. 16, 2021

She was also part of an ancient magicking clan.

From The Verge Oct. 26, 2018

Otherwise the Potter play is just creating a grisly resale market, and magicking up profits for secondary ticket websites.

From The Guardian Jun. 8, 2016

There is a lovely moment when it feels as if the audience have been personally responsible for magicking up the larder through the astonishing power of our thoughts.

From The Guardian Dec. 12, 2012

The lamps the riders carry illuminate the silhouettes of the dead, magicking them into lumbering caricatures of humanity.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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