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
“I’ve never seen anybody else do the hocus-pocus that she sometimes does.”
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
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
"And what makes you so sure that science is so reliable? Or that the university crowd has any better answers than the hocus-pocus gang?"
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
