Thesaurus results for ILLUSIONIST

illusionist

noun

i-ˈlü-zh(ə-)nist

as in magician

one who practices tricks and illusions for entertainment tried to figure out how the illusionist made his assistant disappear from the stage

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Recent Examples of illusionist Magician Andi Gladwin leads an unlikely team of illusionists on an international caper to track down the culprits. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026 The traveling circus show brings acrobats, illusionists, freaks and mysterious creatures inside its black and red tent starting Friday, April 3, and running daily through Monday, April 13. —

Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026 The story follows rival illusionists Celia and Marco in a magical, traveling Victorian circus. —

Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026 Even the most skeptical viewer may be susceptible to the distractions of a particularly charismatic or chatty illusionist, right? —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for illusionist

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magician

Noun

My colleague Glen Levy was at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta yesterday to watch Spain, led by its young magician, take on Saudi Arabia.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
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.

— John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2026