potion
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“Marble Hall Murders,” in which Lesley Manville returns as book-editor/sleuth Susan Ryeland, opens with a teenage coven of druidic pharmacists mixing a noxious potion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"I don't have a magic potion that I can give to member states" -- especially, she said, the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council -- so that "everybody's friends."
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
The video for Opalite premiered on Friday, and stars Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson as a "lonely man" who summons Swift into his life by spraying a magic potion on his beloved cactus.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
No magic wand or special potion is needed -- only light.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
Anya helped Mama make Zinoviya’s teething potion and Bogdana’s digestive.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2024
In a widely condemned practice, some traditional healers use body parts to make potions, claiming they can cure people of illnesses or improve their fortunes.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
It was a caustic, contemporary-dress interpretation that compressed the work’s sprawling settings to a single estate and eliminated the mythological magic, the dragons, potions and instant transformations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Even though she knew which potions were which, Anya still labeled each of them with a different colored bit of yarn tied around the mouth.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Vocabulary lists containing potion
Because of Winn-Dixie
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