shamanist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shamanist
Noun
  • Even shamans who use traditional medicinal plants to treat illnesses direct HIV-positive patients his way.
    Adam Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Others whispered that she had been wounded in a battle with an Indonesian shaman and disappeared into the mountains.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The movie is about a young man with magical powers who travels to his uncle with the request to fight his sorcerer father.
    Claire Moses, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Weaver is making her West End stage debut as storm-creating sorcerer Prospero in The Tempest.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Throughout the ceremony's four days of observances and events, the young woman is guided and advised by her medicine man.
    Alejandra Rubio, NPR, 29 Mar. 2025
  • After Nygren's speech, medicine man Lorenzo Max led the march, singing prayers and sharing ancestral stories.
    Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • This contract screams negative EV once the goalie voodoo roulette wheel works against us in the next year or so.
    Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • By all metrics, Voodoo Macbeth was a smash, as critics fawned over the performances, the eye-popping costuming (above) and the voodoo drumming.
    Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • While the snail that had given rise to Ziconotide, Conus magus, was easy to collect in shallow water, Ramiro had her sights set on a lineage of cone snails that preferred deeper, darker depths.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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