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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wonder-workers
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Carved from whale bones, reindeer antlers and walrus tusks, these fierce talismans are vengeful spirits traditionally created by shamans to destroy enemies.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Researchers believe the structures served as elite burial sites for leaders, priests, or shamans, challenging earlier assumptions that Funnelbeaker societies were strictly egalitarian.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Dec. 2025
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The forecaster who makes the most accurate predictions, as early as possible, can earn a cash prize and, perhaps more important, the esteem of the world’s most talented seers.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Aug. 2019
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All evidence shows that Chee and Manuelito have engaged in carnal intimacy as the prophets foretold.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 2026
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But aren’t prophets esteemed precisely for their willingness to tell difficult truths to the people of God?—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Today’s crunchy universe has its own lexicon, myriad complicated theories and counter-theories, and a legion of skeptics and soothsayers, many with scientific or pseudoscientific backgrounds.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
20 Jan. 2026
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Back at Montecalvo — where the surviving sorceresses are still picking up the pieces after the battle with Vilgefortz — things are calmer, though the stakes are arguably even higher.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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