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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for occultist
Noun
  • In need of a new assistant after his last one died under mysterious circumstances, Giacomo reluctantly becomes the sorcerer’s apprentice.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The sorcerers also reveal that Bruce Banner has become Infinity Hulk, a living vessel for the Infinity Stones.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mischief in the mind of Cole Martin, the defensive back, moonlighted as a magician and snatched the direct snap before darting through a crease and churning ahead for a trick of a first down.
    Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • As the creative director for Boucheron, Claire Choisne has the sleight of hand of a magician — conjuring extraordinary jewelry from her imagination.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
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
  • In the fourth inning, the Bronx voodoo swirled in the night sky.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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
  • Yennefer is gathering mages to help get to him from all angles.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In another magical Miami tale, a broke witch who works in a spellshop and an adjunct professor who’s secretly a popular himbo mage team up to win a spellcasting reality show competition — except someone is sabotaging the contestants’ work.
    Lia Amador, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Take a stroll downtown to spot miniature pumpkins dangling from the oaks along Main Street, or meander down smaller streets to find oversized skeletons by the sidewalks and witches’ hats strung overhead.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Then again, even the fictional boarding school for witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series did not have a production line like Barcelona’s academy.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There was a collective inhale as Kyle Abraham—founder, Artistic Director, conjurer—took the stage for a solo that reminded us why his company carries his name.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
  • My first port of call was a workbench commanded by Marianna de Sanctis, who wore white gloves, like a conjuror or a croupier.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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