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
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
They appeal also, perhaps, for the same reason astrology, numerology and other hocus-pocus systems do: because it’s fun to divide people into categories.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
“I knew it! I knew all you guys were going to crack up someday if you didn’t quit fooling around with this hocus-pocus stuff.”
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
"And I'm the pertickler party that hocus-pocused 'em."
From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
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
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
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
