"wand" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a thin, cylindrical stick used in magical practices or as a verb to describe a movement or gesture made with a stick or rod. Example: Harry waved his wand and a pile of books flew off the shelf.
This was the week that Emma Watson threw off her wizard's cloak, put down her wand and took to the podium for the launch of the UN's HeforShe campaign.
It is possible to believe in both evolution and the Catholic church's teaching on creation, Pope Francis has said, as he cautioned against portraying God as a kind of magician who made the universe with a magic wand.
But on the other, you have the equally false position staked out by Ed Balls: that with a wave of a Keynesian wand we can be magicked back to 2006.
Independence is not a magic wand: it's what we do with it afterwards that counts.
Sex expert Annabelle Knight talked Phillip Schofield and co-host Christine Bleakley through a selection of toys including blindfolds, a feather "tickler" and a vibrating "body wand".
He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
"When we read the creation story in Genesis we run the risk of imagining that God was a magician, with a magic wand which is able to do everything," he said.
Microsoft responded with the Kinect, a camera-based system that allows players to control the on-screen action through their body movements, and Sony launched the Move, a wand-like controller.
That is because it seems to have borrowed the idea from Nintendo, which has positioned the Wii as a console that will appeal to non-gamers, chiefly through its innovative, wand-like controller, which it showed off this week.
Its key innovation is its wand-like controller, which resembles a simplified TV remote-control rather than the usual button-strewn joypad.
One attraction of the wand-and-paper approach is that it could become a portable printer, copier, fax and scanner.
