wishing well
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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
With its red-accented A-frame roof, footbridge and wishing well, the home echoed the dwarfs’ forest abode from the movie, but sat in the distinctly more metropolitan locale of the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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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