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alchemy

[al-kuh-mee] / ˈæl kə mi /


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And as she explained her victory, it wasn’t about any special alchemy.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

"They created a theatre of 750 seats in the round, a democratic arena where the alchemy between actor and audience is at its most purest form and they've created something that still feels fresh today."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Still, that particular bit of alchemy never gets old to me.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Under Greenspan’s watch, the Fed didn’t blow the whistle on riskier lending practices in which Wall Street used financial alchemy to turn dodgy mortgages into highly rated securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

It was fitting, then, that when he entered the university, he made his place in the college of alchemy.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“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

It is the spirit of the Battalion, something compounded by the subtle alchemies of the spiritual world out of the individual souls of officers and privates alike.

From The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 by John W. Arthur


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