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Noun
In the two minute trailer (below), the death of someone close to a secret society charged with monitoring the world’s immortals, including witches and vampires, prompts the group to seek out a new recruit in the form of a young unsuspecting man, Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton). Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 Or are the Conjurings just set in a conservative mirror universe where the witch trials were also justified, Ouija boards really are direct lines to hell, and the satanic panic was not a panic at all? Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
Indeed, Agatha and Nicholas’ tune appears to have taken on a life of its own, and now witches everywhere actually believe the Road exists. Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024 In this new entry, opting to remain friends with characters still keeps those interactions rich, witch each character still having their own motivations and narrative arc. Kazuma Hashimoto, Them, 28 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for witch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for witch
Noun
  • Batman has always been skeptical of magic, but nonetheless gets drawn into an investigation that involves Constantine, Etrigan, Zatanna, Deadman, Black Orchid, and Swamp Thing, leading them all into battle with villainous sorcerer Felix Faust.
    Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For his part, He-Man has a team that includes Battlecat, Man-at-Arms, the sorcerer Orko, Teela, and, uh… Fisto.
    Will Harris, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • On the flipside is the hag: unattractive, withered and unpleasant.
    Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Welcome to lady knight fall with this romantasy about the bloody, magical bonds between a mage and his knight.
    Natalie Zutter September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Since the very first edition of Shadowrun, using magic causes fatigue to a mage, called Drain, an important part of balancing magic in my mind.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Cinephiles will be charmed, and writers and directors will recognize Linklater’s chops.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Del Toro has charmed the Lido before, winning the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, with 2017’s The Shape of Water, which ultimately went on to scoop four Oscars, including Best Picture and Director.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Childhood is a time of enchantment, and a mother is a daughter’s first sorceress—omnipotent, enthralling, sometimes alarmingly so.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Though evil is running rampant, Thundarr refuses to be kept down, battling back with the help of the sorceress Ariel and Ookla the Mok, a Wookie-like creature forced into the series by ABC over Gerber’s objections.
    Will Harris, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Magic starred Hopkins as Corky, a magician who reaches fame alongside his ventriloquist’s dummy, the obnoxious and wisecracking Fats.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Two young, passionate magicians, Robert Angier (Jackman), a charismatic showman, and Alfred Borden (Bale), a gifted illusionist, are friends and partners until one fateful night when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the idea has always fascinated him.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So that image has always fascinated me.
    Maria Reva September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Quantrill, like other prominent Confederates such as the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was mythologized by Confederate sympathizers.
    Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Released in 2004, the film follows Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, who finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025

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