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conjure up

verb

Definitions

  1. To create or produce something, seemingly magically.

  2. To call up or command a spirit or devil by an incantation.

  3. To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.

    • Like most persons utterly unused to deception, she could not imagine how it was to be managed; and her thoughts conjured up every probable and improbable embarrassment that might occur.
    • For his part, he told the New York Times in 2019 that he didn’t feel he could conjure up the requisite malevolence to play certain roles.

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