hocus-pocus
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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
“I’ve never seen anybody else do the hocus-pocus that she sometimes does.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
The happy resolution is earned by more than hocus-pocus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
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
One loaf, and she was a shoo-in for the baker’s job, though I suspect she may have knocked out the competition with some hocus-pocus, too, if rumors are to be believed.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
As it chanced he must have hocus-pocused them wrong, for though his hand was full of trumps, Rodd held nothing at all.
From Finished by Henry Rider Haggard
"And I'm the pertickler party that hocus-pocused 'em."
From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
This fellow Strange, with his fortune-tellin' and his charms and his conjures, has hocus-pocussed the whole neighborhood.
From Heart of the Sunset by Rex Ellingwood Beach
But when one has been hocus-pocussed about anything one ... one feels very strongly about, one gets suspicious of everybody....
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
