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potion

[poh-shuhn] / ˈpoʊ ʃən /


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“Marble Hall Murders,” in which Lesley Manville returns as book-editor/sleuth Susan Ryeland, opens with a teenage coven of druidic pharmacists mixing a noxious potion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"I don't have a magic potion that I can give to member states" -- especially, she said, the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council -- so that "everybody's friends."

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

The video for Opalite premiered on Friday, and stars Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson as a "lonely man" who summons Swift into his life by spraying a magic potion on his beloved cactus.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

No magic wand or special potion is needed -- only light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025

“I had to deliver a potion to the Mihaylovs for Babulya.”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

This is also when I deploy what I lovingly think of as my potions and powders: anchovy, tomato paste, miso, soy sauce, fish sauce, bouillon paste or cubes, mushroom and brown gravy powder.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

After collaborating on an early workshop of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the two joined forces to bring to life wand duels, transfiguration potions and the Mind Flayer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2024

Somewhere in all of that smoke were the potions and herbs Doc, Jay, and I had created together.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce




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