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as in sorcerer
a woman believed to have often harmful supernatural powers
the 17th-century house had once belonged to a woman who was hanged as a witch
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as in mage
a person skilled in using supernatural forces
freakish storms that were once thought to be the work of witches
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as in to charm
to attract or delight as if by magic
the woman did witch me with her gentle smile
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Recent Examples of witch
Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
That diary-like quality feeds directly into Zelda’s performance as Mickey, a young woman facing a terminal diagnosis who seeks out a witch’s dark magic.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2026
Steve Bender, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
Sage & Salt is witching up the personal fragrance category.
—James Manso, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Before she was known as Lady Van Tassel and terrorized the town in New York with her ghostly avenger, Mary went by the name Sarah Archer, a young girl trying to survive her witch of a mother.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
That diary-like quality feeds directly into Zelda’s performance as Mickey, a young woman facing a terminal diagnosis who seeks out a witch’s dark magic.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2026
Verb
And also that people have used four branches of witch hazel as the vining rods or witching sticks to find water.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
Sage & Salt is witching up the personal fragrance category.
—James Manso, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for witch
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The regulars fired at them with a booming 12-pounder that made the American boys lift their knees like old hags, trip and founder as tentacles of water dragged them under.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Jan. 2026
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Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
9 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The fantasy series follows the elf mage Frieren, who was part of a band of heroes recognized for defeating the Demon King.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 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
Verb
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The clip has charmed people online because of how intentional the whole thing feels.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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The commissioners were charmed, but the real win was when a representative of a local homeowners’ association invited the students to attend their next meeting to discuss the project.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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All except librarian Elaine Ambrose, hell-bent on protecting the British Museum’s artifacts from the Blitz yet somehow connected to the sorceress Nimue, herself a protector of a certain mythical sword.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, along his journey, Odysseus encounters iconic figures from Greek mythology, including the nymph Calypso, the sorceress Circe and the goddess Athena, all while striving to reunite with his family.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
27 Dec. 2025
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That group did just that Saturday against Allen, one of the game’s great players and great late-game magicians, and did it in a style that Payton had been begging for for weeks.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
18 Jan. 2026
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The show helped bring exposure to comedians like Melissa Villaseñor, dance groups like Jabbawockeez, and any number of musicians, magicians, and niche performance acts.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Jan. 2026
Verb
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How golfers rely on — and leverage — technology fascinates Skenes, from the numbers culled relative to swing speed and ball flight to how their bodies must be in sync to generate so much club speed.—
Tribune News Service,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2026
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People tend to be fascinated by half-and-half beings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Don’t look too closely behind the curtain because the wizard isn’t a wizard at all.—
Gladys Louise Tyler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Its lead character is Harry Dresden, a professional wizard operating out of the city of Chicago in a world where ghouls, ghosts, werewolves and vampires exist in the shadows of modern society.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Witch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/witch. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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