cantrip

chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantrip
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Glamour is a gift and a curse as Venus and Neptune align.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Google / Ars Technica A cathartic curse eliminates the AI Overview in the results.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Most of the recipients dismissed the composer as a crank, but a few were spellbound by his transcendentalist conjurations, and a cult began to grow.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Theater is a more symbolic space, a conjuration of lights and plywood, which offered Comer a kind of freedom.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Unless, of course, the writer’s jinx overcomes the tie pin and the palm trees.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Knocking on wood: This age-old superstition is believed to prevent bad luck or jinxes.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • So grab your favorite streaming device, line up some snacks, and let the enchantment unfold.
    Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • That’s the sizzling enchantment Craig, at his best, is capable of.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Endgame sorceries, mob-melting moves, and ground-shaking incantations can be yours in next to no time.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • This was some unsettling prediction sorcery — but, luckily, there was a solution.
    Amelia Edelman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Cantrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantrip. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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