as in witch
someone who is believed in some cultures to be able to use magic to cure people who are sick, to control future events, etc.
went to the shaman for a remedy
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Recent Examples of shaman
The only people believed capable of negotiating with the possessing winds, of restoring balance, are shamans of African descent.
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Adam Pourahmadi,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered in 1930s Germany, the discovery was quickly politicized to support Nazi propaganda.
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Greg Dixon,
NPR,
6 Apr. 2026
The retreats are usually led by facilitators, shamans or therapists.
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Ashley J. Dimella,
FOXNews.com,
24 Mar. 2026
The book details the life and otherworldly visions of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota healer and shaman who bore witness to the horrors of white settler colonialism firsthand, including at the battles of Little Big Horn (1876) and Wounded Knee (1890).
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Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Adam Pourahmadi,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered in 1930s Germany, the discovery was quickly politicized to support Nazi propaganda.
—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
6 Apr. 2026
The retreats are usually led by facilitators, shamans or therapists.
—
Ashley J. Dimella,
FOXNews.com,
24 Mar. 2026
The book details the life and otherworldly visions of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota healer and shaman who bore witness to the horrors of white settler colonialism firsthand, including at the battles of Little Big Horn (1876) and Wounded Knee (1890).
—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaman
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Produced by Diablo Cody, Forbidden Fruits stars Lili Reinhart as Apple, the leader of a cult of witches in a Texas shopping mall.
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Conjuring Nightfall For the witches and lovers of nostalgic decor, look no further than the Conjuring Nightfall collection.
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My colleague Glen Levy was at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta yesterday to watch Spain, led by its young magician, take on Saudi Arabia.
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Bayer and Diaconis — who as a teenager ran away from home to apprentice with a magician specializing in card tricks, before becoming a renowned mathematician — didn’t just prove the existence of a precise cutoff in a real-world system.
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But what was more notable was that the sandwich shop had a portal to a wizard's lair, which is where the Russo kids trained to become the only standing wizard family.
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Beasley even lit up the scoreboard consistently across the globe in China, affording him unquestioned credentials as an offensive wizard worldwide.
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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.
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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.
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Of course, the commercial ends in climactic fashion, as He-Man lifts Skeletor above his head for the grand finale and the sorcerer erupts into his legendary cackle.
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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.
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The bony villain is a warlock who stole the throne of Eternia from King Randor and now rules it with a tyrannical fist.
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There are barbarians with battle axes and swords, robots with laser guns, spaceships, a warlock with a skull for a face.
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There’s an undercurrent of anxiety under all of it, outside of the sea hag.
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The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.
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“Shaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaman. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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