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
At this point in the story, Chihiro was at the top of a Kyoto hotel, protecting a high-school girl named Iori from a sorcerer-assassin named Hiruhiko.
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Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Leading the cast are Nicholas Galitzine as the sword-wielding prince and Jared Leto as Skeletor, an evil sorcerer looking for secrets of the mysterious Castle Grayskull.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
Transformed into a swan by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, Odette and Siegfried's love faces an impossible battle against dark forces.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2025
Avots plays Egil, a poet, farmer, murderer, sorcerer, ladies’ man, and a bit of a psychopath, who is seeking revenge on Erik Bloodaxe (Molyneux) for the exile of his family to Iceland by Erik’s father, King Harald Fairhair.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 July 2025
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Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Leading the cast are Nicholas Galitzine as the sword-wielding prince and Jared Leto as Skeletor, an evil sorcerer looking for secrets of the mysterious Castle Grayskull.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
Transformed into a swan by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, Odette and Siegfried's love faces an impossible battle against dark forces.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2025
Avots plays Egil, a poet, farmer, murderer, sorcerer, ladies’ man, and a bit of a psychopath, who is seeking revenge on Erik Bloodaxe (Molyneux) for the exile of his family to Iceland by Erik’s father, King Harald Fairhair.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorcerer
Noun
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Yennefer is gathering mages to help get to him from all angles.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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In another magical Miami tale, a broke witch who works in a spellshop and an adjunct professor who’s secretly a popular himbo mage team up to win a spellcasting reality show competition — except someone is sabotaging the contestants’ work.—
Lia Amador,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Entertaining performance Performers can run the gamut from cultural dancers celebrating a couple’s heritage to magicians to even a specialized singer.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Karl Lagerfeld made a drawing of me in a crystal ball like a magician in the TV.—
Ramin Setoodeh,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Believing that Tesla built Alfred’s Transporter machine, Robert hopes the wizard can build a similar contraption for him.—
Kirk Honeycutt,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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Look for an enrollment wizard through notifications and in Settings, Microsoft says.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Long-suffering Mariners fans are doing everything in their power to will this team to a Game 6 win — Etsy witches and rally shoes included.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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Novak stars as Gillian, a chic Greenwich Village witch in the Beatnik era who owns an odd art gallery, has an unusual black cat, and uses magic to woo her neighbor (Stewart).—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Sorcerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorcerer. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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