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
The story ends in the village of Hammondsport, where Drew was killed, with a kind of incantation of the cycle of life on Keuka Lake.
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Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Endgame sorceries, mob-melting moves, and ground-shaking incantations can be yours in next to no time.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
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
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Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Endgame sorceries, mob-melting moves, and ground-shaking incantations can be yours in next to no time.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incantation
Noun
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Jack Harrison returned to Leeds United after a loan spell.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
28 July 2025
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Arriving for his second spell, the Scottish 62-year-old has generated a positivity that hasn't been witnessed at the club for years.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
Noun
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These prosaic details, coming three pages from the end, are shockingly poignant in their invocation of a familiar accouterment of upper-middle-class adolescence.—
Daphne Merkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Microsoft has integrated a2a support into Azure AI Foundry and enabled a2a agent invocation through Copilot Studio.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Noun
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This is both a blessing and a curse in the list production process.—
Maggie McGrath,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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And after that, the Kennedy curse became this sort of wide-ranging explanation for a lot of things that were happening.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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“Incantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incantation. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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