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Recent Examples of occultist
Vampyr focuses on a young man and occultist (Nicolas de Gunzburg) who attempts to free a French village from the curse of a bloodthirsty fiend.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
He was given a chance to do a try-out performance, which was promptly ruled occultist.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
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
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The land of sorcerers, dragons and savagery played out across eight gripping series, drawing millions of viewers into the fictional worlds of Westeros, Essos, and beyond.—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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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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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
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The wonderful World of Eternia is positively brimming with heroic warriors, courageous robots, strange mutants, nefarious necromancers, beastly companions, and the coolest command post under the sun, Castle Greyskull.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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There will also be snow play, cookie decorating, a stilt walker, bubble elf, face painters, balloon twisters, bounce houses, crafts and a magician with three shows.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
26 Nov. 2025
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With three new magicians, plus the returns of Caplan and Mark Ruffalo’s Dylan (in a brief cameo), the Four Horsemen become eight by the end of the movie.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
23 Nov. 2025
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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
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Banks threatened to burn down Del Rey’s house with voodoo.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2026
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The carrion odor of a voodoo lily is meant to attract pollinating flies and beetles.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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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
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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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At one point, Torres claimed he was possessed by a witch, according to the outlet, which cited the state’s attorney.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Dec. 2025
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Some may seem strange, like Welsh winter festivities that often involve a horse's skull, while others might inspire you to travel to experience the holidays on the beach in Australia or witness Venice's canals taken over by gift-giving witches.—
Andrea Romano,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Dec. 2025
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One of their clients was the sculptor Richard Serra, conjurer of gargantuan things, who would change the course of Vilardi’s career.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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Their conjurers, who refuse to accept the rules of the real world, can also be great fun to read about.—
Erin Somers,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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