abracadabra

Example Sentences

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At first relatively reserved, he celebrated the discovery of a spectator’s card by stomping his feet and yelling “¡CHAN-TATACHAN!” — nonsense syllables that are his personal version of “abracadabra!”

From New York Times

Put a little abracadabra in your stocking with the new special “Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic 2021.”

From Los Angeles Times

The series’ celebrated technobabble is just a kind of reformulated abracadabra; human characters get the hang of alien gear faster than you could look up how to reset your car’s clock in the owner’s manual.

From Los Angeles Times

Jakob Galloway of Wilmington Banning might as well have shouted “abracadabra” after catching a short swing pass in a football game against Elsinore, because what happened next was magical.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a bit of zoological abracadabra—appropriate for their genus, Magicicada.

From Scientific American