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wishing well

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noun

  • wishing wells
    plural
  1. a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.


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We stopped by a wishing well, where a worker handed me a token to throw down to an animated genie who promised to grant my desires.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

She also recorded a rendition of Snow’s song “I’m Wishing” that played from the wishing well at Disneyland’s Snow White Grotto.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2025

“The practices that Wynn did were things like meditation on wishing well being for others and imagining taking in their suffering into himself and breathing out light and happiness toward them,” Stanfield said.

From Washington Post Apr. 26, 2022

Another woman's trolley was filled with three Mr Potato Heads, four rabbit-shaped wicker planters and a wooden wishing well for her garden.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2019

Not that long ago, I went to the wishing well downtown.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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