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mage

noun

ˈmāj

Definition of mage

as in sorcerer

a person skilled in using supernatural forces an ancient tale of a mage who made lush gardens grow in the desert

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Recent Examples of mage The brilliantly flexible job system still rips (want to create a gun-toting mage? — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025 Wizards, or mages (as the group has commonly referred to Eleven), develop their powers using arcane magic to cast powerful spells. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025 Yennefer is now spearheading a new alliance of mages and elves operating out of The Lodge. — Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025 Separated from his lover, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) and his adoptive daughter, Ciri (Freya Allan), Geralt has been severely injured by the evil mage Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu). — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mage

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The woods could be hiding places of witches and sorcerers, disguised as the old and feeble, but capable of summoning wonder and terrors, charms as well as curses.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
The sequence featuring Circe, the sorcerer who turns Odysseus’s men into pigs, might be the most disturbing of them all, not so much for what’s shown as for what’s implied, as the men’s body-horror-like transformations occur in tight shots.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026

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The series follows James (Jimmi Simpson), an ex-firefighter who teams up with a shady magician named Paul (Damon Herriman) to steal money from Paul’s father, a manipulative pastor played by Ben Kingsley.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish in the night.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of magician

Noun

She and Kidman reprise their roles as sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, witches in Massachusetts who must once more confront a family curse that causes the deaths of men whom women in their family fall in love with.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
The film takes an almost body horror turn when the crew comes across the witch Circe.

— Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026

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