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
  • An odder explanation involves sorcerers (koldunï-arbui) and sacrifices.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Musing about unintended consequences, Oosterhoff mentioned the myth of Pandora’s box and Goethe’s tale of the sorcerer’s apprentice.
    Charles Lane, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • When Alice and Bob meet back on Earth, though, the magician’s trick is revealed.
    Matt von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Magic-Al Garber is the magician to book.
    The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 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
  • To put all of us in, someone had to be the dog or a witch.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The English actor married Persia White — who played Abby Bennett, one of the famous Bennett witches and the mother to Kat Graham's character, Bonnie.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 5 Apr. 2026

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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.

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