alchemist

It will take even the great alchemist Emery time to fashion his new team, but he has been given the materials to work his magic for another season aiming for the top four.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Lichtenberg considers himself an AI alchemist of sorts, because he often has to re-prompt the tools he uses to get the writing and analysis he’s looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

A self-proclaimed alchemist, Williams specializes in transforming wet soil into hardened sculptures that typically live outdoors, where the wind carries seedlings that may attach to the artist’s creations and bloom.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

And in the notebooks of 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, the appearance of silver, gold, arsenic and lead revealed that Kepler may have been a practicing alchemist.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2023

“It means only that the heart does what it can,” the alchemist said.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

Whereas the alchemists of old sought ways to turn base metals into gold, I am transforming a precious metal into gifts for the most important people in my life, family members both past and present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Astrologers consult a national zodiac, palm readers ring pagodas, would-be alchemists attempt to transmute mercury into gold and SIM card companies advertise dial-a-diviners.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Then there’s the whole other wave: the artisan mayonnaise makers, those alchemists who’ve transformed a simple spread into an expressive canvas.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

Transforming base materials into gold was one of the elusive goals of the alchemists of yore.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

Look how complicated this is, alchemists said, even as they made it so.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor