cantrip

chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantrip
Noun
  • The amalgamation of memory, historical fact and artifice yield an engrossing incantation.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • These works evoke the votive sculptures of ancient Egypt, where animals garnered more reverence than they do now, were seen as perhaps incantations of gods.
    Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Rev. Franklin Graham will deliver the invocation.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The invocation of emergency powers was ruled unconstitutional by a Canadian court in 2024.
    The Editors, National Review, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the cold spell brought Chicago's air temperature down to a bone-chilling minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit on January 21.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Eowyn will also bring rain showers and longer spells of rain across the north of Ireland, according to forecasters, and there was a chance of hail and snow in the hills of Scotland.
    Claire Moses, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And anyone who believed in curses was gaining some evidence.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Cubs fan sabotages his own team and extends the most infamous curse in MLB history During Game 6 of the 2003 National League Division vs. the then-Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached out and grabbed a ball that could have been caught.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Most of the recipients dismissed the composer as a crank, but a few were spellbound by his transcendentalist conjurations, and a cult began to grow.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Theater is a more symbolic space, a conjuration of lights and plywood, which offered Comer a kind of freedom.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Unless, of course, the writer’s jinx overcomes the tie pin and the palm trees.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Knocking on wood: This age-old superstition is believed to prevent bad luck or jinxes.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.
    Jé Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The thought of our freedom to get outside and mingle being suppressed has a foreshadowing of doom that has smothered the enchantment of snow days.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The fact that Desmond injures himself badly in pulling off this sorcery endears him to Corrino all the more, which of course puts Valya in a deeper fix.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Cantrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantrip. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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