Thesaurus results for WONDER-WORKERS

wonder-workers

noun

plural of wonder-worker

as in occultists

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Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Sci-fi blends with folklore as shamans stand in fields to anoint the new drone gods.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of shamans

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Or so claim these prophets of inverted doom who conjure a past that never was, as shaped by the fractured lens of the present.

— David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of prophets

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Pollsters, the modern equivalent of soothsayers, are increasingly wrong.

— Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.

— Vulture Editors, Vulture, 10 June 2026

Definition of soothsayers

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This is where the city stages its daily open-air show — street artists sketching portraits, fortune-tellers shuffling cards and musicians playing for appreciative crowds.

— Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
Street artists and fortune-tellers set up here daily, creating a scene that feels spontaneous every time.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of fortune-tellers

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Decades before portraying one of literature’s greatest sorceresses in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Samantha Morton was a magician’s assistant.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026
But unlike Odysseus, who survives being waylaid by giants, sorceresses, nymphs, and numerous other distractions, Nolan himself becomes dragged down by the details of his Odyssey.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 July 2026

Definition of sorceresses

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