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Recent Examples of necromancy After her death, Morgan even resorted to necromancy, reviving the People’s Princess (now embodied by Elizabeth Debicki) as an apparition who soothes a disconsolate Charles (Dominic West) and makes peace with a grieving but resentful Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton). Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023 Part of my aversion arises from my own hidebound premodern Calvinist outlook, in which death is no laughing matter and necromancy is forbidden by God (see Deuteronomy 18:9-13). Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023 Season 8, which arrived on BritBox last month, includes a spooky Christmas tale, a bright spin on necromancy, a game show that doesn’t go according to plan (hosted by Lee Mack) and an off-kilter love story. Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023 Vo’s introduction of witchcraft, necromancy and enchantment miraculously produces a more relevant novel than that poetic tale of a gaudy stalker and his closeted pimp that’s been passed off for decades as the ultimate interrogation of the American Dream. Washington Post, 18 June 2021 The necromancy reference and Gideon's own interest in cloning would seem to be connections to the cloning project that led to Snoke and the eventual reveal of the cloned Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2023 Faith is desperately pinned to necromancy. Robert Shackleton, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 Many writers, especially of the Afropessimist school, argue that Black trauma has been hijacked by narratives of redemption, as names like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor cease to refer to individuals and become—by a kind of necromancy—avatars of others’ political ideals. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021 At Google I/O 2022, the company decided to engage in a bit of device necromancy. Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for necromancy
Noun
  • Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The fact that Desmond injures himself badly in pulling off this sorcery endears him to Corrino all the more, which of course puts Valya in a deeper fix.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Franklin’s immediate ancestors grew up in a world where the fear of witchcraft led to tragic consequences.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The leadership of folks like Book and the Trans Folk Witch is especially significant considering the long history of exclusion within witchcraft.
    Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Vanishing: Remove Barriers To Focus On What Matters In magic, making something vanish entirely creates awe.
    Jimi Gibson, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Quantum magic The process begins by using regular computers to simplify a problem to be solved using quantum hardware.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Necromancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necromancy. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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