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 board voted unanimously 10-10 to hand Mickey’s famous sorcerer’s hat to D’Amaro.
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
The sorcerer’s job is not to run things for them, like a supervised Mickey Mouse, but to create intuitive systems that help people add things AI can’t do.
—Bipul Sinha, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
These sorcerers combat monstrous manifestations of negative human emotion, known as Curses, using a parallel energy source called Cursed Energy.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Speculative Fiction Rooted in Personal Cost Hebert’s Daniel Ward is a centuries-old, powerful sorcerer who keeps his true identity and magical abilities a secret.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
The sorcerer’s job is not to run things for them, like a supervised Mickey Mouse, but to create intuitive systems that help people add things AI can’t do.
—Bipul Sinha, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
These sorcerers combat monstrous manifestations of negative human emotion, known as Curses, using a parallel energy source called Cursed Energy.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Speculative Fiction Rooted in Personal Cost Hebert’s Daniel Ward is a centuries-old, powerful sorcerer who keeps his true identity and magical abilities a secret.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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When Alice and Bob meet back on Earth, though, the magician’s trick is revealed.—
Matt von Hippel,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Apr. 2026
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Magic-Al Garber is the magician to book.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Every version of Merlin the wizard, spanning an expansive gender spectrum.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Daniel Bernhardt is Deathstalker, a legendary swordsman stuck with a cursed amulet who befriends swamp monsters and teams with a mini wizard (voiced by Patton Oswalt) to stop a dark magic from ruling the land.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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To put all of us in, someone had to be the dog or a witch.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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The English actor married Persia White — who played Abby Bennett, one of the famous Bennett witches and the mother to Kat Graham's character, Bonnie.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Sorcerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorcerer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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