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
An odder explanation involves sorcerers (koldunï-arbui) and sacrifices.
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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.
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Charles Lane,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
The land of sorcerers, dragons and savagery played out across eight gripping series, drawing millions of viewers into the fictional worlds of Westeros, Essos, and beyond.
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Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
The women in the corps are swans because of a spell cast on them by a sorcerer named von Rothbart.
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David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
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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
The land of sorcerers, dragons and savagery played out across eight gripping series, drawing millions of viewers into the fictional worlds of Westeros, Essos, and beyond.
—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
The women in the corps are swans because of a spell cast on them by a sorcerer named von Rothbart.
—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sorcerer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorcerer
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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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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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And thank you to reader Ron, a descendant of one of the paper’s founders, for the reminder of such an auspicious occasion (and Producer Nicole, a front page-finding magician).
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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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At the time, Soros, along with the financiers Julian Robertson and Michael Steinhardt, defined the public image of hedge-fund managers as investment wizards who made fortunes through huge bets, contrarian calls, iron stomachs, and a willingness to operate close to—or over—the regulatory line.
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As Bloomberg recently reported, brides are buying $14 spells from witches on Etsy to ensure that their $100,000 weddings are not marred by blizzards or downpours.
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These are places from Filipino folklore, where shapeshifters, demons, witches, and monsters exist.
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“Sorcerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorcerer. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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