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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a magical manner; by or as if by magic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a magical manner

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Examples

  • "Where?" cried I, looking all round me in the surprise of the moment, as if I had expected to see the title magically inscribed for us on the walls of the room.

    After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Then Rauf and his wife, Daisy Kahn, went on a PR binge, and the name magically changed overnight into one worthy of a top ad agency campaign: Park51.

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  • Stacey D'Erasmo on The Road Home by Rose Tremain: She proves herself again magically capable of animating a character from the inside out, illuminating the heart of one modern exile with an extraordinary degree of love, imagination and insight.

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  • Which appears magically from a dumbwaiter from the Lower Caverns where all the slutty kitchen women live.

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  • So I found it a little strange seeing her name magically appearing along with a cute flirtatious message on his board out of nowhere.

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  • She was even madder than I thought she'd be and got so disgusted that I knew what was coming next but the call magically dropped right as she saying to "Kill the ....."

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  • {T_THEME_PATH} which magically translates to/defaultstylename/when uploaded ...

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  • And, no, just because most people seem to be confused about it doesn't make the wrong term magically correct.

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  • And, no, just because most people seem to be confused about it doesn't make the wrong term magically correct.

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  • And, no, just because most people seem to be confused about it doesn't make the wrong term magically correct.

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