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Recent Examples of occultist
He was given a chance to do a try-out performance, which was promptly ruled occultist.
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Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for occultist
Noun
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The women in the corps are swans because of a spell cast on them by a sorcerer named von Rothbart.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
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The board voted unanimously 10-10 to hand Mickey’s famous sorcerer’s hat to D’Amaro.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The first Mistborn trilogy of books centered on metal-using magicians who attempt to overthrow a despotic empire.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
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Lionel Richie isn’t just an entertainer but quite the magician, too.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.—
Sam Kiley,
CNN,
30 June 2022
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But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
Noun
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The polygraph is voodoo science.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Ask for a side of voodoo sauce, which offers hints of peppercorns, bourbon and butter.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Like Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum and other great enchanters before him, Miyazaki, now 82, delights in ushering us, alongside his young heroines and heroes, into ravishing storybook worlds that are at once scarily unquantifiable and eerily recognizable.—
Justin Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Nov. 2023
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It’s been generations since the rise of Dark Lord Morgoth, but armies led by the likes of Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel have been fighting Morgoth and his legions, including bloodthirsty orcs and the powerful enchanter Sauron.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Aug. 2022
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The fantasy series follows the elf mage Frieren, who was part of a band of heroes recognized for defeating the Demon King.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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Interspersed throughout the main storyline, sequences depict how Trent Ikithon (Mark Strong) recruited the promising fire mage to join his magic academy, submit to painful experimentations to enhance his power, and eventually groomed him to become a Volstrucker assassin to hunt down dissidents.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Dec. 2025
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When medicine can't treat her cancer, a dying youngster (Zelda Adams) reaches out to a forest witch (Toby Poser) who uses dark magic to cheat death, but there's a serious cost involved in this rich and artfully crafted scary movie.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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There’s literal witches and second sight in his plays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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