shaman

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Recent Examples of shaman The spa In addition to classic spa services like facials and massages, the Post Ranch spa offers more esoteric experiences including shaman sessions (for both individuals and couples), a power animal drum journey, astrology, energy balancing, and forest meditation. Lauren Sloss, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026 Carved from whale bones, reindeer antlers and walrus tusks, these fierce talismans are vengeful spirits traditionally created by shamans to destroy enemies. R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026 Keith Richards — who has looked good (relatively speaking) in his recent online posts, and perhaps graduated from collective death watch to eternal shaman — received a mere four votes, three fewer votes than Billy Joel and Phil Collins. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026 Researchers believe the structures served as elite burial sites for leaders, priests, or shamans, challenging earlier assumptions that Funnelbeaker societies were strictly egalitarian. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shaman
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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
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
  • Every version of Merlin the wizard, spanning an expansive gender spectrum.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Daniel Bernhardt is Deathstalker, a legendary swordsman stuck with a cursed amulet who befriends swamp monsters and teams with a mini wizard (voiced by Patton Oswalt) to stop a dark magic from ruling the land.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
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
  • 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
  • Set in New Orleans, Coven Academy follows three teenage witches and their dangerously charming warlock peers at an elite magic school where power is currency, secrets are lethal, and attraction is a liability.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
  • His warlock power is immense and intense.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Ah, the famous and epic love between an up-and-coming designer and his hag.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The regulars fired at them with a booming 12-pounder that made the American boys lift their knees like old hags, trip and founder as tentacles of water dragged them under.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Shaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaman. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.

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