alchemy
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Still, that particular bit of alchemy never gets old to me.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It begins with the transfer of gold from the mantle into a melt that eventually forms volcanoes. The alchemy starts long before the metal reaches the surface."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
For all his musical ability, Christopher loves the alchemy of transforming into a character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time that overnight he lost all interest in his experiments in alchemy.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Fire of Love” excavates their unique story, and the jaw-dropping footage the Kraffts left behind, in a film exploding with awe for the mysterious alchemies of love and obsession.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
It’s also a profane hymn to the specific alchemies of fire and metal, to the dark allure of forces that can destroy us no matter how hard we try to bend them to our will.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Chaat is India’s seemingly limitless genre of snacks, alchemies of sour-sweet, tart and smoky, cooling and incendiary, creamy and crackling.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
Equally important are good timing, dumb luck, strange alchemies.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
John had been scarcely a year on the papal throne when he issued this decree forbidding "alchemies" and inflicting a punishment upon those who practised them.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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