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as in magic
having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers
the notion that a cat has nine lives is based upon the belief that nine is a mystic number
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as in mysterious
being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain
the belief that there are mystic forces at work here
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as in ambiguous
having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning
mystic prophesies that are never understood until it is too late
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Recent Examples of mystic
Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
Bass-music mystic Shackleton and GNOD’s Marlene Ribeiro drizzled down dubby, vividly colored psychedelia on The Rising Wave.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
One reason medieval mystics resorted to apophatic language was to suggest the ineffable majesty of God, the God beyond God.
—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
Madonna was born and raised Catholic but has long practiced the Jewish mystic tradition of Kabbalah and adopted the Hebrew name Esther in 2004, per The Forward.
—Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
Bass-music mystic Shackleton and GNOD’s Marlene Ribeiro drizzled down dubby, vividly colored psychedelia on The Rising Wave.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
It’s developed a cult following well beyond Mendocino County, magnetizing beer aficionados with a power appropriate to its namesake, Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
One reason medieval mystics resorted to apophatic language was to suggest the ineffable majesty of God, the God beyond God.
—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystic
Adjective
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According to AltarR Capital founder and managing partner Igor Ryabenky, investors are now avoiding companies that use AI like a magic catch-all.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
5 Mar. 2026
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Regular magic devotees such as myself will have seen all of his tricks before, in the raw sense, but his show is highly engaging nonetheless because of his ability to live in the moment and react in a live way to what is going on in the room.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Remote and mysterious, Rapa Nui continues to awe visitors who wonder how its earliest navigators found this isolated corner of the Pacific.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
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This is the most mysterious part of this for now.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Times when a gay man from Texas needn’t rely on ambiguous pronouns and discreet interviews to court a broad audience.—
Brian Howe,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
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And as a result, the show — accompanied by some quite instructive poster art — stays true to the book’s lusty approach to ethically ambiguous relationships in academia.—
Elaina Patton,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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First off, the guy on the sidewalk outside the liquor store was a drunk, not an oracle.—
David Sedaris,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Cordelia storms into episode two as a kind of oracle for the rest of the season for Yasmin.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Steve Carell taught it, and Adam McKay developed an entire new way of doing it with his group, so to get in there and have that happen was just absolutely magical.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Mar. 2026
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Nobody has ever called Brentford head coach Keith Andrews a magical or imaginary being.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Strange rituals conducted by children unfold on the beach; dance parties at the big club devolve into fever dream bacchanals; cryptic, threatening symbols appear near the rental house.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Boil it down to just one musician and an acoustic guitar to reveal the durability of this cryptic, futuristic sound.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Police released an image captured from a surveillance video showing a person wearing dark clothes and a backpack, with their face covered.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Mar. 2026
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But the late-Baroque facade of the building conceals a special, darker history, one that reflects persistent political and legal problems for the bank thousands of miles away, in the US.—
Hugo Miller,
Bloomberg,
10 Mar. 2026
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Some eagle-eyed observers even shared close-up screen grabs of this seer, showing her to have different colored eyes.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Feb. 2026
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The forecaster who makes the most accurate predictions, as early as possible, can earn a cash prize and, perhaps more important, the esteem of the world’s most talented seers.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Mystic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystic. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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