exorcist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exorcist
Noun
  • The seer was Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and an inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
  • But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.
    John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Costa Rica has the jungle shaman who’ll realign your spleen and sell you ayahuasca in a biodegradable pouch.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Trump’s followers may communicate through memes and message boards, but their faith belongs to a much older mythology: the eternal face-off between shaman and witch, prophet and cabal.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • But the prevalence of the debate proves the manga’s tight grip on the popular imagination – amplified by both soothsayers across Asia and social media – especially in seismically active Japan, where the constant threat of an earthquake or tsunami looms large in the popular imagination.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next.
    Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The rally also marked Eid al-Ghadir, when, according to Shiite Muslim belief, the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated his nephew and companion Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor.
    NBC News, NBC news, 14 June 2025
  • But that doesn’t rate the AI as being an oracle or a prophet.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Jack the Clown will reign over his entourage of malicious jugglers, maniacal dancers and evil fortune tellers.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no fee per se, the fortune tellers do expect a small gratuity.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The dance began a century ago when an Ojibwe medicine man’s granddaughter fell sick.
    Austin American Statesman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • To today's ear, the elixirs, potions and tonics sold at Haag sound like a traveling medicine man’s inventory: Swamp root, Danderine, Sloan’s Liniment, Catarrh Jelly, Wine of Cardue.
    Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
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“Exorcist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorcist. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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