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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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While much of the plot still remains hidden in the eastern European nation of Latveria, it is known to feature heroes from different timelines that team-up to fight the universe-shattering peril of a sorcerer scientist named Doctor Doom.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
It's based on a Russian fairy tale called the Firebird, which is about a young prince who rescues a coterie of princesses from an evil sorcerer.

— Libby Smith, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

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Houdini offers tribute to some magicians who preceded him and laments that more wasn't known about them.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
In it, an orphan inherits a magician’s book and uses it to recover the memories an authoritarian empire has buried.

— Mark Schilling, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026

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Among the counties now favoring Colom is Forrest County, home to Hattiesburg and named for Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Forrest County’s Competing Legacies Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Tennessee slave trader who became a Confederate general, later served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

— Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026

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