abracadabra
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Unlike sorcerer "Koshchei the Deathless", the Kremlin cannot abracadabra coins out of thin air.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
If retirement funds get to omit the costs of BDCs from their own reported expenses, surely private-equity, venture-capital, hedge funds and other “alternative” vehicles will demand the same abracadabra treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Put a little abracadabra in your stocking with the new special “Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic 2021.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
Two months ago, the state’s highest court nonetheless yelled abracadabra and changed the deadline to Nov. 6, while making postmarks optional.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
A huge part of me wants to text back abracadabra because that would make such a great line in a movie, wouldn’t it?
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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Photograph: John Giles/PA With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2012
The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In addition there were all kinds of superstitious designs, alchemistic abracadabras and symbols, in which no man of sense any longer believes.
From The Tower of Dago by Jókai, Mór