occultist

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Recent Examples of occultist He was given a chance to do a try-out performance, which was promptly ruled occultist. Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • In the first Mortal Kombat film, Outworld sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) seeks to eliminate Earth's champions ahead of the ultimate tournament between realms.
    Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • Indeed, the sequel to the fan-favorite 1998 film, in which Bullock and Kidman play sister sorcerers, will hit theaters this September.
    Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Who to face this strange, ancient magic but the last of the Grim Lords, the sleeping necromancer Kaiataris?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • After receiving four yeses from the judges, the musician rocketed to the top of the talent show competition, placing third behind acrobatic group Zurcaroh and magician Shin Lim.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • What did the fisherman say to the magician?
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.
    Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • 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
  • The same goes for June, the shape-shifting human voodoo doll and hitwoman who became a swift fan favorite in Book 2.
    Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Prosecutors showed the jury a picture of a voodoo doll that Church allegedly kept of Randall.
    Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The movie is adapted from the French novel of the same name (Le mage du Kremlin, in French) by author Giuliano de Empoli and casts Paul Dano as a fictional character named Vadim Baranov, who assists Putin in his rise to the center of Russia's government.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Released in 1993, Hocus Pocus is set on a Halloween Night when three 17th century witches — Winnie (Midler), Sarah (Parker), and Mary (Najimy) — are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts, hundreds of years after their heyday.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • What sound does the engine of a witch’s vehicle make?
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026

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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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