shamanist

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Noun
  • Player 44, the shaman, finally completes this team of outcasts by haughtily chastising them for not coming to her first.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Tapped from the history of female shamans, the original aroma was an overdose of amber and cashmeran wood, and in the new Extraintense fragrance, has turned even more captivating and charming.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Gunn described his vision for Luthor as a sorcerer of science, not necessarily a mad one.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 May 2025
  • Nicolas Cage dons the wizard's robes as the centuries-old sorcerer Balthazar Blake, with Jay Baruchel starring as his college-age protégé.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Throughout the ceremony's four days of observances and events, the young woman is guided and advised by her medicine man.
    Alejandra Rubio, NPR, 29 Mar. 2025
  • After Nygren's speech, medicine man Lorenzo Max led the march, singing prayers and sharing ancestral stories.
    Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Maybe Samsung will work some software voodoo and make that smaller battery last longer.
    Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The victims, many of them elderly, were accused of using voodoo to harm the gang leader’s son.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While the snail that had given rise to Ziconotide, Conus magus, was easy to collect in shallow water, Ramiro had her sights set on a lineage of cone snails that preferred deeper, darker depths.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
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“Shamanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamanist. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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