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incantation

[in-kan-tey-shuhn] / ˌɪn kænˈteɪ ʃən /


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“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Now, it sounds more like a utopian incantation: read it aloud three times on a hill under moonlight and perhaps it will come true.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025

Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

Ron, who was supposed to be jinxing Harry, was purple in the face, his lips tightly compressed to save himself from the temptation of muttering the incantation.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling




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