magic
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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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