wonder-worker

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Recent Examples of wonder-worker The order that takes his name, the Franciscans, is known for its production of wonder-workers capable of similar feats. Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 Online, a host of experimental, upstart wonder-workers were finding new audiences with eye-catching content about all things demonic. Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wonder-worker
Noun
  • Head Over Heels is a fantasy rom-com about a high school student/shaman, Seong-A, played by Cho.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Moto Moto, run by the spunky Rashida (Arica Jackson) and emceed by the exuberant Ahmed (Nick Rashad Burroughs) becomes a hotbed of heterogeneity (there’s even a shaman) in a culture that is otherwise intolerant of mixing.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Brother Larry Schellman taught him about shamans, swamis, and thaumaturges, as well as the Catholic Church’s position on them—namely, that their powers are real but demonically granted.
    Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • Of Jesus the dusty thaumaturge, the wandering soul-zapper and self-styled son of God, less so.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • But that doesn’t rate the AI as being an oracle or a prophet.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • The faith was influenced by the visions of Ellen White, who is considered a prophet.
    Luis Andres Henao, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.
    John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
  • In South Africa, the teen-age seer Nongqawuse foretold that the European settlers would be swept into the sea and a golden age would dawn—if only her people slaughtered their cattle and burned their crops.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next.
    Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 18 July 2025
  • After a soothsayer predicts that theater's future combines singing, drama and dancing, the duo begins to write the first-ever musical.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • 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.com, 2 July 2025
  • Over the course of the series, Jen evolves from a powerless witch hocking legally dubious candles, to a sorceress liberated from the binds that kept her grounded.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 6 June 2025

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“Wonder-worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonder-worker. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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