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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
Annie is the community’s spiritual leader, a Hoodoo conjurer, herbalist and healer.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
There was a collective inhale as Kyle Abraham—founder, Artistic Director, conjurer—took the stage for a solo that reminded us why his company carries his name.
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Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
29 Sep. 2025
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
To a Roman, especially one who found herself far from home, the taste of garum must have been an instant conjurer of memories happy and sad, childhood, grandparents, places, events, conversations, journeys, feuds and reconciliations that made a Roman uniquely Roman.
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Literary Hub,
20 May 2025
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
There was a collective inhale as Kyle Abraham—founder, Artistic Director, conjurer—took the stage for a solo that reminded us why his company carries his name.
—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
29 Sep. 2025
My first port of call was a workbench commanded by Marianna de Sanctis, who wore white gloves, like a conjuror or a croupier.
—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
To a Roman, especially one who found herself far from home, the taste of garum must have been an instant conjurer of memories happy and sad, childhood, grandparents, places, events, conversations, journeys, feuds and reconciliations that made a Roman uniquely Roman.
—
Literary Hub,
20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjurer
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My colleague Glen Levy was at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta yesterday to watch Spain, led by its young magician, take on Saudi Arabia.
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Bayer and Diaconis — who as a teenager ran away from home to apprentice with a magician specializing in card tricks, before becoming a renowned mathematician — didn’t just prove the existence of a precise cutoff in a real-world system.
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Of course, the commercial ends in climactic fashion, as He-Man lifts Skeletor above his head for the grand finale and the sorcerer erupts into his legendary cackle.
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In the first Mortal Kombat film, Outworld sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) seeks to eliminate Earth's champions ahead of the ultimate tournament between realms.
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The movie is adapted from the French novel of the same name (Le mage du Kremlin, in French) by author Giuliano de Empoli and casts Paul Dano as a fictional character named Vadim Baranov, who assists Putin in his rise to the center of Russia's government.
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Interspersed throughout the main storyline, sequences depict how Trent Ikithon (Mark Strong) recruited the promising fire mage to join his magic academy, submit to painful experimentations to enhance his power, and eventually groomed him to become a Volstrucker assassin to hunt down dissidents.
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But what was more notable was that the sandwich shop had a portal to a wizard's lair, which is where the Russo kids trained to become the only standing wizard family.
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Beasley even lit up the scoreboard consistently across the globe in China, affording him unquestioned credentials as an offensive wizard worldwide.
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Produced by Diablo Cody, Forbidden Fruits stars Lili Reinhart as Apple, the leader of a cult of witches in a Texas shopping mall.
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Conjuring Nightfall For the witches and lovers of nostalgic decor, look no further than the Conjuring Nightfall collection.
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“Conjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjurer. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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