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or conjuror
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as in magician
a person skilled in using supernatural forces
in the book the conjurer battles a barbarian swordsman
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as in illusionist
one who practices tricks and illusions for entertainment
a conjurer in Las Vegas who must make audiences believe in the impossible eight shows a week
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Recent Examples of conjurer
The local doctor was really just a helpless conjurer, while the lazy village priest got endowed with unwarranted godlike powers.
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James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Goth Shakira is a digital conjurer based in Los Angeles.
—Goth Shakira, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
Fact: Global warming is caused by the lewd, un-Christian practices of witches and conjurers.
—Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Goth Shakira is a digital conjurer based in Los Angeles.
—Goth Shakira, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
Fact: Global warming is caused by the lewd, un-Christian practices of witches and conjurers.
—Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjurer
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My 5th grade teacher was an amateur magician who used tricks in class.April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
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The film is essentially Friday the 13th set on a train, but famed magician David Copperfield makes a cameo to set the movie apart from other slashers.Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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When the cohort last signed off, a concerned sorcerer had teleported an outmatched cleric right into a giant crocodile’s mouth.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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Merlin: Merlin was a key sorcerer in Arthurian Romance.Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
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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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At Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, our staff garden wizards have been busy all summer and fall, prepping all the botanical bounty of the growing season to deck the halls for our annual Yuletide at Yew Dell, which takes place Fridays and Saturdays from Nov. 29 to Dec. 21.Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2024
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This way, the wizard in focus rotates like the main characters of a television show.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 6 Nov. 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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“Conjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjurer. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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