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sorcerer

noun

ˈsȯr-sə-rər

Definition of sorcerer

as in mage

a person skilled in using supernatural forces a sorcerer who used his power for evil ends

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Recent Examples of sorcerer The sorcerers, it was thought, targeted their victims by stealing bits of their hair, clothes, nails, or feces, and wrapping them in a bundle with leaves. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 The man was a rock and roll sound smith and a lyrical sorcerer. — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Aug. 2026 The woods could be hiding places of witches and sorcerers, disguised as the old and feeble, but capable of summoning wonder and terrors, charms as well as curses. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 The sequence featuring Circe, the sorcerer who turns Odysseus’s men into pigs, might be the most disturbing of them all, not so much for what’s shown as for what’s implied, as the men’s body-horror-like transformations occur in tight shots. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sorcerer

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Months earlier, Andy accidentally entered a magical portal, became a mage and saved the realm, but no one at home believed him.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 July 2026

Definition of mage

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Houdini offers tribute to some magicians who preceded him and laments that more wasn't known about them.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
In it, an orphan inherits a magician’s book and uses it to recover the memories an authoritarian empire has buried.

— Mark Schilling, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026

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Among the counties now favoring Colom is Forrest County, home to Hattiesburg and named for Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Forrest County’s Competing Legacies Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Tennessee slave trader who became a Confederate general, later served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

— Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026

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