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Recent Examples of medicine man
Thirty-one of the 190 videos—almost a fifth—include disparaging remarks about tribal practices including the Sunrise Dance or medicine men, including two completely dedicated to convincing the congregation of the evil within the Sunrise Dance.
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 28 June 2024
Klee’s father, Jones Benally, is a traditional Diné (as the Navajo call themselves) medicine man; his mother, Berta Benally, is an activist and folk musician of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage who grew up in the folk scene of Greenwich Village.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
When Kinsel recently began seeing visions of his late horse Yoyo running toward him, a medicine man held a ceremony to dispel the phantoms.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
Benally, the son of Navajo medicine man, Hoop Dancer and cultural performer Jones Benally and Berta Benally, a folk singer of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage, was born in Black Mesa on the Navajo Nation in 1975.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 28 June 2024
Klee’s father, Jones Benally, is a traditional Diné (as the Navajo call themselves) medicine man; his mother, Berta Benally, is an activist and folk musician of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage who grew up in the folk scene of Greenwich Village.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
When Kinsel recently began seeing visions of his late horse Yoyo running toward him, a medicine man held a ceremony to dispel the phantoms.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
Benally, the son of Navajo medicine man, Hoop Dancer and cultural performer Jones Benally and Berta Benally, a folk singer of Russian-Polish Jewish heritage, was born in Black Mesa on the Navajo Nation in 1975.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine man
Noun
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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
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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
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Only these culinary shamans really knew how to make this stuff.—
Mike Curato
June 13,
Literary Hub,
13 June 2025
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Bent on evangelizing the Indigenous population in a remote Ecuadorian village, Candice (Sara Canning), a white American woman, alongside her husband and teenage son, must confront endemic beliefs and the man who holds the knowledge about them: the shaman.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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With his sword, superhuman strength, and loyal friends, He-Man defends Eternia and the secrets of Castle Grayskull from the forces of the evil sorcerer Skeletor.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
15 June 2025
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In a far-off city, all our heroes teamed up to defeat an invading empire and kill the evil immortal sorcerer guiding their invasion, all while exorcising their own various demons or taking on some new ones.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Medicine man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine%20man. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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