necromancer

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Recent Examples of necromancer When Lemuel Gulliver is on his travels, a necromancer offers him the chance to summon up any spirit from the dead. Literary Hub, 17 July 2026 That’s more than can be said for the sequel, which is just driven by pandering, up to and including bringing back characters who’ve died, usually with the help of necromancer Quan Chi (Damon Herriman). Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026 The islands will also include the opportunity to battle D&D characters such as Klauth, the ancient red dragon and necromancer Valindra Shadowmantle. Kennedy French, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026 Toby’s central role as the witch Solveig — a necromancer who treats death as something to be welcomed rather than feared — embodies the script’s most provocative ideas. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2026 Fans of dark storytelling will find cruel necromancers, derelict mansions and strange alchemies in this page-turning epic. Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025 Season 2, subtitled Arise from the Shadow, saw Jinwoo further master his necromancer abilities on a mission to save his mother. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025 Amon, a tank-like Forgeknight; and Vex, a Siren who has the ability to spawn minions and drain life from enemies like a necromancer. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for necromancer
Noun
  • On the wall above the bicycle hung a framed oil painting of the sorcerer Merlin and the knight Lancelot done by the Scotsman James Archer in the late nineteenth century.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 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
Noun
  • This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Or this one, where the mage Nic Cage totes Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The challenge was unofficially posed by rival magician Rahman Bey, who, on July 21, 1926, spent an hour locked in a coffin partially submerged underwater.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
  • The Israeli American magician was winning over the crowd with an uncanny name guessing trick, which involved him correctly identifying the name of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's then-unborn daughter.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • One of the best psych-folk albums of 2026 was made by a beekeeper and a part-time wizard.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026
  • He was nominated for both an Emmy and a second Golden Globe for playing the titular Arthurian wizard in the 1998 miniseries Merlin.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • The two sermons explore the Old Testament story of the Witch of Endor, in which King Saul consults a witch before a battle against the Philistines.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
  • In the 1998 movie, Wood and Alexandra Artrip played Kylie and Antonia Owens, the daughters of Sandra Bullock’s witch character.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 28 July 2026

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“Necromancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necromancer. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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