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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Plot: Dead bodies from the local cemetery come back to life after Bart utters an incantation from The Time Life Book of Magic and Spells, Vol. II.
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Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incantation
Noun
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Overall, warmer days are on the way for much of the central and southern U.S., with milder conditions for the Northeast following extended spells of teeth-chattering chills in February, Sosnowski said.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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Long spells of sitting in airports and on airplanes is a common story among patients who come to the ER with one or more clots in their legs — or worse, evidence that a clot has broken free and traveled through the bloodstream to lodge in the lungs, a serious condition called a pulmonary embolus.—
Arthur L. Kellermann,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Those performances will be followed by a call to order and invocations, before the president-elect and vice president-elect take the oaths of office.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2025
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There is one outside-the-box argument that a challenger could make to Trump’s IEEPA invocation.—
Noah Feldman,
The Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Chinese Communist Party is a curse upon the earth.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
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Finishing fifth — or even fourth, as Liverpool managed last season — has historically been a bit of a curse, with teams struggling to build on their successes.—
Jessy Parker Humphreys,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Incantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incantation. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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