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or conjuror
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as in magician
a person skilled in using supernatural forces
in the book the conjurer battles a barbarian swordsman
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as in illusionist
one who practices tricks and illusions for entertainment
a conjurer in Las Vegas who must make audiences believe in the impossible eight shows a week
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Recent Examples of conjurer
My first port of call was a workbench commanded by Marianna de Sanctis, who wore white gloves, like a conjuror or a croupier.
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
There’s a fact of Connecticut life that the allocation conjurers ignored.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
Smoke reconnects, in one of the film’s most lusty moments (there are quite a few), with Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), an old flame who’s also a Hoodoo conjurer.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
But Pochettino is not just a conjurer of other people’s emotions.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
There’s a fact of Connecticut life that the allocation conjurers ignored.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
Smoke reconnects, in one of the film’s most lusty moments (there are quite a few), with Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), an old flame who’s also a Hoodoo conjurer.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
But Pochettino is not just a conjurer of other people’s emotions.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjurer
Noun
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Drinkwitz likened quarterback Diego Pavia to a magician.—
Chase Gemes,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
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In this 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie, Aly Michalka plays Allyson Miller, an aspiring television producer who creates a reality show searching for the next great kid magician.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Based on Gege Akutami’s manga, the film follows Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, two sorcerers tasked with protecting Amanai Riko, a student chosen as the Star Plasma Vessel, while being pursued by curse users and a religious cult.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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The sorcerers also reveal that Bruce Banner has become Infinity Hulk, a living vessel for the Infinity Stones.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
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Yennefer is gathering mages to help get to him from all angles.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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In another magical Miami tale, a broke witch who works in a spellshop and an adjunct professor who’s secretly a popular himbo mage team up to win a spellcasting reality show competition — except someone is sabotaging the contestants’ work.—
Lia Amador,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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The apple-munching Euphoria actor slipped into Tilda Swinton’s plush period dress from the ravishing 1992 drama, joined by Jeff Goldblum, Wicked’s wizard himself, in sparkly Gucci.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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Three years after their wonderfully creepy first feature film Coraline, the stop-motion wizards at Laika released this horror comedy about an 11-year-old boy who can communicate with the dead.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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Egg carton witches on popsicle stick brooms littered the craft table no matter the season.—
Christa Carmen,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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In Hocus Pocus, Dani, her older brother Max (Omri Katz) and his crush Allison (Vinessa Shaw) have to save the children of Salem, Massachusetts after accidentally awaking the witch Sanderson sisters from their 300-year slumber.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Conjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjurer. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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