incantation
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“The invocation of national security is not a magic incantation that suspends the rule of law,” they added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
To boost the placement of these companies’ products in AI results, Bailyn’s company plants a sort of magic incantation, known as a “brand authority statement,” on at least 10 websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Now, it sounds more like a utopian incantation: read it aloud three times on a hill under moonlight and perhaps it will come true.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
This ritual lasted an entire night and involved burning small figures made of wax and clay while an exorcist recited specific incantations.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
The combination of the Welshman’s grim poetics and the singer’s apocalyptic incantations gets the set off to a powerful start and signals something entirely new for the Charli XCX oeuvre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
And, in a concession to modernity, as well as holding up feathers in a blessing for the King, the elder was reading his incantations from an iPhone.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
His words and imaginations were his incantations to the world, and to himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
Unfortunately, they could not copy the spell she was doing because she was now so good at nonverbal incantations that she did not need to say the words aloud.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Lord of the Flies
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The Hobbit
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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