as in spell
a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power
hovering over the sick child, the witch doctor muttered mysterious incantations
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Recent Examples of incantation
Wanda cursed Hahn's Agatha to live out her days playing out her own distorted reality as Agnes, until a young goth horror enthusiast shows up to break the witch free with an incantation.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Alice draws a circle around Lilia uttering some sort of incantation as Patti LuPone’s witch writhes on the floor in her glittery jump suit and orange coat.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
Fiasco is a wonderfully musical ensemble — its members’ braided, rising harmonies at the play’s beginning suggest a ritual incantation, and every so often, characters get brief solos or duets that don’t feel too far removed from the sincere hero ballads of Disney’s golden era.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
Some Trump officials touted these objectives to the point of incantation, but Trump himself rarely mentioned them.
—Frances Z. Brown, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2019
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Alice draws a circle around Lilia uttering some sort of incantation as Patti LuPone’s witch writhes on the floor in her glittery jump suit and orange coat.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
Fiasco is a wonderfully musical ensemble — its members’ braided, rising harmonies at the play’s beginning suggest a ritual incantation, and every so often, characters get brief solos or duets that don’t feel too far removed from the sincere hero ballads of Disney’s golden era.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
Some Trump officials touted these objectives to the point of incantation, but Trump himself rarely mentioned them.
—Frances Z. Brown, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incantation
Noun
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Filmed in the New Forest, the largest remaining unenclosed common land in England, where the entanglement of non-human and human activity hides a joyous spell.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
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Instead of alphabetizing at a decent clip, Josh sniffs the books and ponders and ponders and then sits a spell to read.—
Lisa Kennedy,
The Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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With that shift in perspective comes an expansion, both of the territory around Black figuration but also thinking a greater invocation with Black bodies as a site of expansive expression, richness, complexity, depth, or fraughtness.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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And what that often means in the United States is some kind of invocation of the frontier.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Glamour is a gift and a curse as Venus and Neptune align.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Google / Ars Technica A cathartic curse eliminates the AI Overview in the results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Incantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incantation. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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