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Recent Examples of mystic
Adjective
Ancient writings by a pseudonymous mystic! Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025 The irony was that Harlem’s numbers queen, a model of rational risk-taking, found herself in a love triangle with a dream-book mystic—then took to the newspapers to denounce Futtam’s obvious impostures. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
Yeats’s spirals, once dismissed as the wild diagrams of a mystic, now settle over this place like soot. Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025 The round shape and clear sides let the punch’s pumpkin orange hue shine, creating a mystic effect—especially when surrounded by a bit of dry ice mist. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mystic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystic
Adjective
  • The whole place is powered by the magic tears of Muggle-Wumps, apelike creatures whom the Twits keep in captivity and force to stand on their heads for hours on end (there are other fun critters too, such as Alan Tudyk’s backward-talking Sweet-Toed Toad).
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Finally, early in October, the magic message arrived.
    Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gehman, then a graduate student earning a doctorate in disease ecology, had heard about a mysterious illness sweeping through the Pacific coast’s iconic invertebrates.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Since its discovery in 2009, scientists have made little headway in understanding the mysterious origins of these excess gamma rays.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the bigger headlines going into Saturday has been the ambiguous departure of Auburn captain and running back Damari Alston.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • How this will work in practice is also ambiguous, as well as who will keep the peace.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, at the time, Costner was being warned by no less an oracle than Steven Spielberg.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Like any good oracle, Le Bon knows precisely what the future holds.
    Rumaan Alam, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite their magical abilities, Potter and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger faced the same problems as regular pre-teens and teens navigating life in boarding school.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The pair bicker and bond their way through the whimsical Panda Kingdom, a vibrant world that blends the everyday with the extraordinary, carrying animals and humans alike into something at once magical and mundane.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What role did the infamous and cryptic Bob Gray play in the story?
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Weeks before the actress officially filed for divorce, Kidman subtly alluded in a Vogue interview to what appeared to be a cryptic preview of the split.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Kennedy sought the advice of doctors after dealing with severe memory loss and brain fog, reportedly leading to a scan of his brain that showed a dark spot in the imagery.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Instantly, her apartment faded away, to be replaced by a dark void.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The book spans more than six decades and charts the rise of Malone, 84, from an engineering background to his current status as billionaire and media industry seer.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Mystic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystic. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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