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To be good atheist, all I need to do is disbelieve in invisible entities with magic (or magic-like) powers.
Child Abuse Alert 2009
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Hard sci-fi (alien technology and magic-like technology) is probably as hard to believe as mythology and magic.
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None of them is actually a normal human: Yuki is an alien robot, Mikuru is a time traveler from a distant future, and Itsuki is an esper, a being with magic-like powers.
Light Novels: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya » Fanboy.com 2008
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However, scientists and cultists wielders of an ancient, mysterious technology which generate magic-like powers have warned of the coming of an ice age which will, for a minimum of fifty years, bring death and desolation to the islands.
Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton Adam Whitehead 2009
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- The first phase he says will be the magic stage/the Mellies stage involving 'Jarking' - putting the chips into objects without people knowing to come up with sometimes freaky/magic-like interactions.
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_ In vain, in vain; for every where the free knights see; and seeing, every where approach, and oft by such mysterious paths, that magic-like, they flash on the pursued.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810
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The magic-like upbuild of the cantonment, moreover, was the signal for the extension of the electric line to encircle the very center of the big military city, thus adding an additional link of convenience.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman
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Boat -- and the first in the enemy's main chains, and to set his foot on the enemy's main deck! when a most magic-like scene saluted the
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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"It's well we ain't got to shoot Putney or Battersea," said Travers with a grim smile, as he stood shaping her course by inches with his magic-like steering, in the midst of a little covey of pleasure boats: "with this wind we might ha 'brought either on 'em about our ears like an old barn."
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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Many people believe in the magic-like powers of recently announced chief investor Billy Joe
Motorsport.com: news 2010
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