magic
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I was busy learning to do magic tricks with cards with him, making tasty cocktails with his product, riding e-scooters on Olympic Boulevard and watching the Lakers play the Minnesota Timberwolves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
I remember seeing people doing things that were like magic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Europe were guaranteed to reach the magic number of 14½ points and there was nothing America could do about it.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
If it did, the attempt to recreate the first film’s magic would’ve come with plenty of film stock and some colored gels to make sure every shot isn’t washed out in jaundiced yellow.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
If I was fast enough, maybe the magic wouldn’t have time to work.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
These elements can be seen metaphorically in witchy films, where each member of the group represents different magics or general personality traits.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024
SAT-SUN Crafts, minstrels, magics, food, activities, noon-5 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
His putter is not so much a stick as a wand, a thing that magics up birdie after birdie from ever-increasing distances.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2015
Such small magics are easier to come by than significance.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Oh well. Your turn for a plan. You have any strange and wonderful magics from the University? Any dark powers better left alone?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The play “unfolds as a series of oil paintings magicked into life,” wrote Times critic McNulty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
I eventually got my tickets by ringing on the day and being given the final pair magicked up from somewhere.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
There are bouncy, excitable little partygoers in Act I, of course, and the diminutive dolls who spring to life at midnight as the Silberhaus parlor is magicked into a battlefield.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2022
The parents are taken in by the lavish surroundings, free fancy clothes, and free food that happens to simply appear as if magicked by house elves.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2022
He magicked the sickened explorer of animals back to bed, and glad enough he was to be there.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
There is the all-encompassing “we,” magicking itself into existence whenever everyone online seems to agree on something.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
She was also part of an ancient magicking clan.
From The Verge ● Oct. 26, 2018
Otherwise the Potter play is just creating a grisly resale market, and magicking up profits for secondary ticket websites.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2016
There is a lovely moment when it feels as if the audience have been personally responsible for magicking up the larder through the astonishing power of our thoughts.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2012
The cook, a trow named Wattle, ignores me and continues magicking the parsnips to chop themselves.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
