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Recent Examples of wonder-worker
The order that takes his name, the Franciscans, is known for its production of wonder-workers capable of similar feats.
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Emily Harnett,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
Online, a host of experimental, upstart wonder-workers were finding new audiences with eye-catching content about all things demonic.
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Sam Kestenbaum,
Harper's Magazine,
21 June 2024
Emily Harnett,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
Online, a host of experimental, upstart wonder-workers were finding new audiences with eye-catching content about all things demonic.
—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Harper's Magazine,
21 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wonder-worker
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Along the way, travelers will meet local shamans, experience traditional llanero (cowboy) culture, and be led by a Mayan spiritual guide and archaeologist.
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The twice-weekly two-hour temazcal experience, led by a local Mayan shaman, guides participants through an ancestral purification ritual focused on physical and spiritual detoxification.
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Brother Larry Schellman taught him about shamans, swamis, and thaumaturges, as well as the Catholic Church’s position on them—namely, that their powers are real but demonically granted.
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Of Jesus the dusty thaumaturge, the wandering soul-zapper and self-styled son of God, less so.
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Set in Astraea, a bioluminescent city that worships the stars, Florescentia follows Lucia Fairfax, an inventor and occultist reeling from the loss of her husband due to one of her rituals.
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Vampyr focuses on a young man and occultist (Nicolas de Gunzburg) who attempts to free a French village from the curse of a bloodthirsty fiend.
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He has been accused by other Christian groups as a false prophet or a cult leader.
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Seven Mountains has brought the language of spiritual warfare and demon-fighting into the mainstream of evangelicalism, through a network of pastors who view themselves as prophets and apostles engaged in a battle against evil secular forces.
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Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
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Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
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Ora Cogan makes songs the way diviners cast charms.
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While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.
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Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.
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The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.
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Blacks were not treated by white doctors in all-white hospitals but were sent to inferior facilities to be treated by men who were little more than witch doctors.
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Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
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“Wonder-worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonder-worker. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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