hocus-pocus
Example Sentences
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Until we all pay attention to what matters, the fee hocus-pocus will never stop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Even up close, it was impossible to tell whether it was all sleight of hand or real hocus-pocus.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021
And though I felt a bit deflated by his rationalist preamble — like Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” I wanted hocus-pocus, not realism — I was bewitched by the processing power of his mind.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021
Chloe Benjamin’s second novel, “The Immortalists,” is one of those hocus-pocus experiences — and, appropriately, it has magic at its core.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2018
"Right. But this stuff is all, like... mystical. What we were talking about on the phone today? I was talking about reality, real people, not a bunch of hocus-pocus."
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
