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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
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
Conjuring Nightfall For the witches and lovers of nostalgic decor, look no further than the Conjuring Nightfall collection.
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Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2026
Jj Kinahan,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
And also that people have used four branches of witch hazel as the vining rods or witching sticks to find water.
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Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
27 Aug. 2025
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Produced by Diablo Cody, Forbidden Fruits stars Lili Reinhart as Apple, the leader of a cult of witches in a Texas shopping mall.
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Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
Conjuring Nightfall For the witches and lovers of nostalgic decor, look no further than the Conjuring Nightfall collection.
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Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2026
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Finally, today is triple witching with equity options, futures and futures options all set to expire.
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Jj Kinahan,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
And also that people have used four branches of witch hazel as the vining rods or witching sticks to find water.
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Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for witch
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Of course, the commercial ends in climactic fashion, as He-Man lifts Skeletor above his head for the grand finale and the sorcerer erupts into his legendary cackle.
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In the first Mortal Kombat film, Outworld sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) seeks to eliminate Earth's champions ahead of the ultimate tournament between realms.
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They're also known as hag moth caterpillars.
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There’s an undercurrent of anxiety under all of it, outside of the sea hag.
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This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.
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Or this one, where the mage Nic Cage totes Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.
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Folks loved her food and were charmed by her cheerful nature.
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After Scotland’s beer-guzzling fans charmed locals in Boston, the Tartan Army’s party has decamped to the heat of Miami for a clash with five-time champion Brazil.
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Meg Foster originated the live-action role of Evil Lyn — one of Skeletor's sinister sorceresses — in the 1987 movie.
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Odysseus encounters a cyclops, sea monsters, and a sorceress who transforms men into animals, all rendered with minimal CGI and maximum ambition.
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My colleague Glen Levy was at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta yesterday to watch Spain, led by its young magician, take on Saudi Arabia.
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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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The Vesuvius disaster and its immense human toll continue to fascinate historians and the public millennia later.
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Denby, as a critic, was fascinated by the great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, as much for his expressions as for his torso, arms, or legs.
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After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.
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And two other high-flying AI wizards — Anthropic and OpenAI — are working on their own mega offerings.
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“Witch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/witch. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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