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sorcery

[sawr-suh-ree] / ˈsɔr sə ri /


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That message sang me to sleep on many nights, and that story explains why it’s stayed with me all this time — it is a masterpiece of melodic sorcery and science, as one.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

His daughter, Susan, dives into some of the most celebrated fiction of the 20th century, her father’s life and his unique sorcery on the page.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

Later, I also discovered a scammer using 21st Century sorcery - deepfake technology with a woman he had hired, Rachel, acting as the face of the con.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2025

Lawrence-Mathers not only shows the bonds between religion and sorcery but examines the sheer beauty of the manuscripts involved, from illumination to illustration.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2025

And since we were not-friends, I couldn’t ask for the secret to her hair sorcery and put an end to my suffering.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries."

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries.

From Time Magazine Archive

With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Ask you the cause?—The cause they will not tell: Nor need they: oh the sorceries of Sense!

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young




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