I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a magic spell
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She found an ancient book of magic spells.
black magic
magic bullet
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There’s no magic bullet for school reform.
magic carpet
magic eye
magic formula (= a method that is certain to be successful )
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There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness.
magic lantern
Magic Marker
magic mushroom
magic touch (= she grows things very well )
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Barbara has a magic touch in the garden .
magic trick
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a magic trick
magic wand
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I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.
wave a magic wand
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I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.
wave a (magic) wand (= move a wand about to make something magical happen )
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I can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better.
white magic
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■ ADJECTIVE
black
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So all concert-goers can sit back and enjoy plenty of Black magic this weekend.
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Now all they have to worry about is hexes, black magic , devil worship, voodoo curses and the occult.
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The poly now teaches black magic ?
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They were odd, these charts, and more like black magic than business.
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Plus, that old black magic .
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Mystery, danger, and black magic combine in this gothic tale set in the early nineteenth century.
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During this bleak phase of its history the cat became firmly linked in the popular mind with witches and black magic .
old
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Not your weasel-faced tame magic , but root-and-branch magic, the old magic.
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And with the passing of the Muppet master, much of the old magic seems lost.
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But the right team will be the old firm, hoping that the old magic can be made to work once more.
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Plus, that old black magic .
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The collaboration was supposed to work the old magic and produce a classic album.
pure
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It was pure magic and Philadelphia fans went nuts.
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To him, this television set is pure magic .
white
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Now I admit, even for a geek, it was a little embarrassing to let investors believe their white magic .
■ VERB
lose
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In short, he's lost his magic .
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But, through the irrepressible machinery of reproduction, its images soon lose the magic of newness and become commonplace.
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One of the many alienating features of unemployment is that weekends lose their magic .
use
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The scheme uses the magic of futures and zero coupon bonds to achieve that, meanwhile you collect a 3 percent dividend.
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Lawmakers could really use some of his magic about now.
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To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist, using the magic of candles.
weave
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Morley weaves its magic only by using a hedge fund to protect the assets of shareholders.
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The writers have weaved their magic again.
work
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I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic .
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Paris works its magic on me.
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But now the two men have changed places, and the boat has worked its magic .
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The new layout and office furniture worked like magic .
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Charles was one such, and he invited her to Highgrove to work her magic .
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Biemiller referred the congressman to this doctor, who again worked his magic .
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He has tried to work similar magic at the unwieldy Energy Department.
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See, there was no way to work my kind of magic on the thing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wave a magic wand
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I ask, if you could wave a magic wand, what would your life look like?
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
weave your magic/weave a spell
work like magic/work like a charm
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wizard who can do magic
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an evening of magic and comedy
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Angela clapped her hands and the cats disappeared as if by magic .
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Christmas has a magic that appeals to young and old.
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The club features juggling and magic acts in addition to stand-up comedy.
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We only have limited knowledge about the practice of magic in the Middle Ages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Am I then a child of miracle and magic ?
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Be sure to wrap your storytelling in magic and mystery.
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But would they hold the same magic for our 20-month-old daughter, Alexandra?
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Harry Potter continues to spin his magic , doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
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He saw a little boy doing magic .
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Lawmakers could really use some of his magic about now.
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Not your weasel-faced tame magic , but root-and-branch magic, the old magic.
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WEAPONS/ARMOUR: The Supreme Patriarch carries a sword but wears no armour as this would compromise his magic .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
box
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Speaking of television, I had my first taste of the magic box in that hospital.
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Those radios were like magic boxes to me.
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Surely, happiness will spring from the husbandry that turns the gross mind into this magic box with its promise of immortality?
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Then have each group invent a story they could tell as they show others their magic boxes .
bullet
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They have been called magic bullets because of their use in the treatment of cancer.
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For the general population, beta carotene is not a magic bullet .
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But there is no magic bullet .
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A magic bullet for inflation, claim some writers.
carpet
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A magic carpet of a book.
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The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet .
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Fashanu has been a 20-goal-a-season man ever since Wimbledon rode their magic carpet into the top flight.
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Those men, including himself, had today's magic carpet , the Press Card.
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It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet .
circle
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Perhaps deities were transported in ships to describe a magic circle of divine protection round the whole island.
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Occultists also claim to cast out demons affecting or possessing one of their number, and even friends outside their magic circles .
formula
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Peter's magic formula AT least some one on Merseyside is doing everything right.
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There is no magic formula for instant success.
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There is no magic formula that will transform sorrow into happiness, intolerance into compassion or war into peace.
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There is no short cut, no magic formula .
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You don't say the magic formula until later.
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So, what was the magic formula that attracted at least three times that number?
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However, what we are dealing with here is a magic formula of a type which has characterised legislation from Brussels before.
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But outsiders, they think we have a magic formula .
ingredient
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After boil-off the hopped wort is cooled and oxygenated enroute to fermenting vessel where the magic ingredient , yeast, is added.
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In his view, design is ninety-eight percent commonsense and two percent a magic ingredient to do with aesthetics.
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The resources include energy, enthusiasm and varying amounts of talent, but the magic ingredient is rubbish.
item
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Both characters are equipped with a number of special magic items .
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These are covered by the Warhammer Battle Magic supplement and are included as magic item cards.
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Only one character at a time may wield these magic items .
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Champions are always equipped exactly like the rest of the unit, except that they are permitted one magic item in addition.
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Building up experience and discovering magic items gives Samson an enhanced chance of surviving the later stages of the adventure.
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The usual rule regarding magic items is that only one item of a specific type can be included.
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A rune weapon will lose its powers for this time, and other rune-based magic items will be similarly affected.
lantern
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Lime lights were also used for magic lantern shows until they were superseded by the carbon arc.
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They make a delightful, spontaneously spellbound audience, to whom one could show history unfolding as if with a magic lantern .
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Cheap cards revolve on a display stand like a magic lantern .
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When we were young we tended it like a magic lantern , and we continue to find its place.
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And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal, like a magic lantern slide.
moment
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The head of the Old Man and a magic moment .
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When Tom Lehman filters his memory for magic moments of 1995, one in particular might be hard to visualize.
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No magic moments at the Manor.
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It was a magic moment , the music describing what was in front of our eyes.
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Seeing a bear like that is a magic moment no matter how many times you re-live it.
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The four-year-old leukaemia victim had flown 4,700 miles for the magic moment .
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I was going to miss that magic moment of seeing air under the tyres for the first time.
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It does not infuse itself at conception - or any other magic moment .
mushroom
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Magic Mushrooms Used by the Aztecs in ancient rituals, magic mushrooms are a hallucinogen.
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Bob had a brown paper poke in his hand from which he was eating magic mushrooms as if they were lemon drops.
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Cultivation of magic mushrooms for use is illegal in Britain, but possession is not.
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The bad news for magic mushroom hunters is that this is not the time of year for fruiting.
number
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This is done by listening to a tape and writing on your application form a magic number .
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Once a patient has his magic number , does it have any effect?
potion
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Or even the Niebelungenlied if he prefers magic potions and omniscience from a colder climate?
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The magic potion was nothing more sinister than Hawaiian Tropic sun tan oil.
power
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In addition, the War Altar itself acts as a source of magic power .
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If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first.
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That you have some magic powers ?
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It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past.
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Few things were more worrying than the idea of Andrea with magic powers .
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It draws magic power from the War Altar and glows with a green inner light.
realism
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How do you break free from the expectation that your stories will be heavily dosed with magic realism ?
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Her first novel House of the Spirits is also highly recommended - a tourdeforce of magic realism .
show
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They can show you magic , but not a magic show.
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I saw one in a magic show once.
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A magic show is a story.
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There was much chattering, much consternation as the villagers were ushered down to the beach for a magic show .
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As a magic show , it was a bust but money kept changing hands.
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I give a magic show ... First Marianne - a simple sleight of hand.
spell
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Orkney casts a magic spell that never fades.
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Mermaids, magic spells and a giant with a wart on his nose.
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The magic spell touched Toulon too.
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It was as if Polly had cast a magic spell .
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The Tzarina does not use the colour magic spells or any of the spell decks in Warhammer Battle Magic.
touch
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Owen Pickard was the man with the magic touch .
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But his magic touch is not easily duplicated, nor, for that matter, often approached.
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He had a magic touch on the string that jerked its engine into rather terrifying life.
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Carlo said I had a magic touch , I can make anything grow.
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And not even Glen Hoddle's magic touch could save the day.
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They feel that the new aid has failed, or that they have failed to find the magic touch in using it.
trick
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This is an old magic trick which entails some preparation.
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I used to practice magic tricks .
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The party bags can contain one or two little magic tricks or puzzles.
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He performs magic tricks and is everything that three women want.
wand
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And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight.
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But in real life, there is no magic wand which turns us into the parents we long to become.
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Equally, nobody to whom I have spoken thinks that decommissioning is a magic wand .
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The magic wand of his personality became the national ramrod.
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Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.
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There are no magic wands or instant solutions.
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
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And now the magic wand of scent had lightly touched, and passed.
word
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Charles would capture one of the boys and only release him if he said the magic word .
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The magic words had been uttered.
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Al knew at once that he had heard A very secret magic word .
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For Geteles and others, potential was the magic word , the answer to all the talk about standards.
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Bacon could argue that Antichrist would invoke stellar influences and magic words having the power to produce physical effects.
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The magic word Literacy campaigns push back the boundaries of ignorance and give people more chance of controlling their own destiny.
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That was the secret, the magic word which would open all the doors.
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They can only mean the magic word - Connie!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a magic act
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Brien has no magic formula for success, other than lots of practice.
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Medea said the magic words that would bring her lover back to her.
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The branch grew into a tree that had magic powers.
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When I was a kid and television arrived, it was magic .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a dowry to this marriage of heaven and hell, Lilith brings a magic mirror, a crown and a pearl.
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In the window there was a magic ship inside a bottle.
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No magic moments at the Manor.
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No magic wand exists that can be waved once and for all to end injustice.
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The magic words had been uttered.
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The head of the Old Man and a magic moment.
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They make a delightful, spontaneously spellbound audience, to whom one could show history unfolding as if with a magic lantern.
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This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence.