artificer
noun
ar·ti·fi·cer
är-ˈti-fə-sər 
ˈär-tə-fə-sər
ˈär-tə-fə-sər
Examples of artificer in a Sentence
the oil tycoon insisted that the best stone masons, cabinetmakers, and artificers in every other craft be employed to create a mansion of unequalled splendor
Recent Examples on the Web
The book contains funny and terrible things, details and episodes so pungent that they must surely have been stolen from a fantastical artificer like Flann O’Brien.
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James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
The book includes new spells, character subclasses, story options for groups of players, options for creating sidekicks, tools for Dungeon Masters and includes the artificer class of magical inventors.
—Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
The only beings to escape the conflagration are four Saranga birds, Takshaka’s son Aswasena, whose mother sacrifices herself to save him, and the artificer Maya, who finds asylum at Arjuna’s feet.
—Girish Shahane, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
Yet in his strongest work, Mr. Viola manages to avoid or transcend this danger by showing himself an artificer of searingly original visions that combine formal rigor and spiritual mystery.
—A.j. Goldmann, WSJ, 12 July 2017
Artificers The few records that reflect Jonathan Wilkinson's life show he was born around 1748 in New Milford in the colony of Connecticut.
—Meaghanm. McDermott, USA TODAY, 3 July 2017
ArtificersThe few records that reflect Jonathan Wilkinson's life show he was born around 1748 in New Milford in the colony of Connecticut.
—Meaghanm. McDermott, USA TODAY, 3 July 2017
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James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
The book includes new spells, character subclasses, story options for groups of players, options for creating sidekicks, tools for Dungeon Masters and includes the artificer class of magical inventors.
—Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
The only beings to escape the conflagration are four Saranga birds, Takshaka’s son Aswasena, whose mother sacrifices herself to save him, and the artificer Maya, who finds asylum at Arjuna’s feet.
—Girish Shahane, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
Yet in his strongest work, Mr. Viola manages to avoid or transcend this danger by showing himself an artificer of searingly original visions that combine formal rigor and spiritual mystery.
—A.j. Goldmann, WSJ, 12 July 2017
Artificers The few records that reflect Jonathan Wilkinson's life show he was born around 1748 in New Milford in the colony of Connecticut.
—Meaghanm. McDermott, USA TODAY, 3 July 2017
ArtificersThe few records that reflect Jonathan Wilkinson's life show he was born around 1748 in New Milford in the colony of Connecticut.
—Meaghanm. McDermott, USA TODAY, 3 July 2017
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artificer
noun
ar·ti·fi·cer
är-ˈtif-ə-sər
ˈärt-ə-fə-sər
ˈärt-ə-fə-sər
: a skilled or artistic worker
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