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abracadabras

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a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power originally, an abracadabra was a cryptogram of the word "abracadabra" that was repeated in diminishing form until it disappeared entirely—supposedly just like the targeted evil or misfortune

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The 1995 Chicago heat wave is the most notorious and deadly of the city's hot spells, and in fact the deadliest weather event in the city's history.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 July 2026
And England had been desperately poor for long spells of the game, tense, panicked, shambolic in defence.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 July 2026

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