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potion

[poh-shuhn] / ˈpoʊ ʃən /


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“Marble Hall Murders,” in which Lesley Manville returns as book-editor/sleuth Susan Ryeland, opens with a teenage coven of druidic pharmacists mixing a noxious potion.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

"I don't have a magic potion that I can give to member states" -- especially, she said, the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council -- so that "everybody's friends."

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

No magic wand or special potion is needed -- only light.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2025

It is hard to blame these fans for wanting to swap the mundanity of everyday life for a world where potion classes and Quidditch matches reign supreme.

From BBC Mar. 15, 2024

Was he headed off to make a potion?

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.

From Slate Nov. 23, 2024

The initial members include Lilia Calderu, a divination witch; Jennifer Kale, a potions expert; Alice Wu-Gulliver, a protection witch; and Sharon Davis, a.k.a.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2024

Women would terminate pregnancies in several different ways, such as ingesting herbs or medicinal potions that were thought to induce a miscarriage, Dr. Schoen said.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2024

“You two grew up around me working root—laying tricks, mixing up potions and powders, picking out plants and such. But now you know there’s more to it.”

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce




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