hocus-pocus
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From his home in Alhambra, Jack Wagner explores the spooky and the supernatural in way that fans say feels legit, ‘without all the hocus-pocus theatrical stuff.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Until we all pay attention to what matters, the fee hocus-pocus will never stop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The idea was to dismantle the hocus-pocus of concert dance, and in her early work, Tharp came on stern like her Judson elders.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
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 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
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
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
