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How to pronounce abracadabra in English?

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Type Words
Type of gibber, gibberish

Examples of abracadabra

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Conjuring magic, it goes abracadabra and snaps its fingers, but nothing happens.
From the sacbee.com
Fourth round weekend though has put the abracadabra back in my FA Cup magic wand.
From the edp24.co.uk
And no recipe is as abracadabra amazing as this one for sticky toffee pudding.
From the gazetteherald.co.uk
Like an abracadabra, her verbal images make live things materialise before our eyes.
From the guardian.co.uk
The world has forgotten that Magic Johnson went abracadabra and got Paul Westhead fired.
From the ocregister.com
He possesses a sleight of hand reminiscent of Bill Clinton's abracadabra style of politics.
From the signonsandiego.com
You can't just say abracadabra and wish them away if you don't want the hostage to get shot.
From the swampland.time.com
There was no abracadabra, no alacazam, no hocus pocus.
From the orlandosentinel.com
This sculpture is an example of Picasso the magician, transforming one thing, abracadabra, into another.
From the bloomberg.com
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  • Gibberish and nonsense
  • Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in conjuring tricks that historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.
  • Abracadabra is a 1952 Italian film directed by Max Neufeld.
  • Abracadabra is a 1991 studio album by ABC.
  • Abracadabra is a 2006 album recorded by French singer Florent Pagny. It was his tenth studio album and was on April 18, 2006. It achieved huge success in France and Belgium (Wallonia) where it remained charted respectively for 66 and 22 weeks, including a peak at #2. ...
  • Abracadabra is the twelfth album by American rock band The Steve Miller Band, released in 1982. It has been certified Platinum in the United States.
  • "Abracadabra" is a well-recognized song recorded by the Steve Miller Band.
  • A mystical word or collocation of letters from kabbalism; Complicated technicalities, jargon that one does not understand much if at all; Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed
  • A magical formula that was used by the Gnostics to invoke the aid of spirits to ward off disease and illness. It is derived from the abraxas, a word that was engraved on gems and amulets or was variously worn as a protective charm. ...