as in mage
a person skilled in using supernatural forces
a sorcerer who used his power for evil ends
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Recent Examples of sorcerer
In a scene with fellow wizard Tom Bombadil (Rory Kinnear), the powerful sorcerer regained his memory and got his magical staff.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
The heroes—Lion-O, Tygra, Cheetara, and Panthro among others—keep the inhabitants of their new home safe from a sorcerer known as Mumm-Ra.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
Theology gathers its cassock skirts and anxiously casts Simon out as a magician or a sorcerer.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Strange is a sorcerer who can project his spirit across dimensions and into dreams.
—Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
The heroes—Lion-O, Tygra, Cheetara, and Panthro among others—keep the inhabitants of their new home safe from a sorcerer known as Mumm-Ra.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
Theology gathers its cassock skirts and anxiously casts Simon out as a magician or a sorcerer.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Strange is a sorcerer who can project his spirit across dimensions and into dreams.
—Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorcerer
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Granted, Prophecy is yet another chapter of Hollywood’s infatuation with IP, but it’s also yielded a lavish little soap opera where Emily Watson is a super-powered leader of an all-female finishing school for young intergalactic mages.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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The protagonist is an Elda, a race the state church declares is anathema on account of their magical abilities, on a mission to awaken the crown prince by murdering the mage who cast a curse on him years ago.Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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The Great Buck Howard (2008) In this mostly dull bauble about a kid (Colin Hanks) who works for a possibly fraudulent huckster magician (John Malkovich), Hanks shows up briefly as a skeptical dad.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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With Biggest ‘Supermoon’ Of 2024 Similarly, Julian Mather, a former sniper turned children's magician discussed how his career journey had many twists and turns.Joseph Liu, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Despite this description, Law found an inner peace playing the wise, if not secretive wizard.Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2024
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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place saw the return of Selena Gomez and David Henrie as wizards over 10 years after Wizards of Waverly Place ended, but Jake T. Austin was missing so far.Jordana Comiter, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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The first part of that is spoken by one of the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and was later repurposed by Bradbury as the title of his 1962 fantasy novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Resembling a witch's face, this nebula is a stellar nursery some 1,300 light-years from Earth.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Sorcerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorcerer. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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