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Recent Examples of sorceressBut the actor is at his most manically animated with the sorceress Circe (Samantha Morton), who has food that Eurylochus’s starving crewmates need.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 July 2026 Decades before portraying one of literature’s greatest sorceresses in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Samantha Morton was a magician’s assistant.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 July 2026 Helen’s famous face has been disfigured, presumably by her angry husband, Menelaus; the sorceress Circe uses her witchcraft in self-defense, seemingly as a result of traumatic encounters with men.—
Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
New Yorker,
17 July 2026 Shirka, the computer on Ulysses' ship, takes her name from Circe, a sorceress.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sorceress
The first witch trial in Ireland took place in Kilkenny in 1324, but people who were suspected as sources of suffering have been murdered since prehistory.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Sep. 2026
In her 2016 film The Love Witch, writer and director Anna Biller told the story of a modern-day witch driven by her desire for the kind of classical romance that fairy tales are made of.
After one season of sorcerer play calling, offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak took the Raiders’ head coaching job.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
27 Aug. 2026
The sorcerers, it was thought, targeted their victims by stealing bits of their hair, clothes, nails, or feces, and wrapping them in a bundle with leaves.