incantation

“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

His formula—AI to read life’s grammar, synthesis to write it, authorship of species as the outcome—recurs so often it begins to feel like an incantation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Under Egypt’s steady hand, each zip of a record sounded like an incantation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Chef Anne Burrell had a way of turning instruction into incantation.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025

He explored every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades’ incantation aloud.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This ritual lasted an entire night and involved burning small figures made of wax and clay while an exorcist recited specific incantations.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

The combination of the Welshman’s grim poetics and the singer’s apocalyptic incantations gets the set off to a powerful start and signals something entirely new for the Charli XCX oeuvre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

And, in a concession to modernity, as well as holding up feathers in a blessing for the King, the elder was reading his incantations from an iPhone.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

Though not technically a book, these incantations are collectively known as the Book of the Dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

The last night of lying on hard ground, and falling asleep to the murmured incantations of the shaman stirring his powders into the fire.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor