1 So much of what politicians say is just hocus-pocus.

2 He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.

3 Higgledy-piggledy merges, all too easily, into hocus-pocus.

4 Corporate executives should recognize financial hocus-pocus by now.

5 Don't hocus-pocus at me!

6 I am the old man. I know hocus-pocus.

7 It is unlikely he would have mistaken hocus-pocus for genuine knowledge.

8 But besides the carnival and hocus-pocus, this book also considers deeper questions about life and fate.

9 And no amount of financial hocus-pocus —for that is what the Geithner plan amounts to —will change that fact.

10 I snapped. "I'm too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now, Gloria!

11 I snapped. "I'm too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now, Gloria! I want my daughter home!"

12 I'm too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now,[] Gloria! I want my daughter home!

13 I still think that horoscopes are a load of hocus-pocus.

14 In fact, Smith did not rest his argument on hocus-pocus.

15 In her poor barrio, La Paca impressed some and irked others with her hocus-pocus and well-connected friends.

16 Lind's simple and logical process should have swept through medicine, brushing aside the accumulated hocus-pocus of centuries.

17 There was the Magical Soul-Mate Finder who prescribed keeping a journal, long hikes, candle-lighted bubble baths and other hocus-pocus.

18 He had great respect for education, but he believed it was some kind of hocus-pocus that enabled a man to live without work.

19 I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus.