Example Sentences

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Alchemists explained blood’s benefits in terms of the classical elements.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Alchemists rarely wrote down the full necessary steps, perhaps because they were not aware that their environments often provided crucial ingredients.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

As with the New Alchemists, this stream flowed into contemporary ecodesign.

From Nature • May 31, 2016

Alchemists discovered and rediscovered many facts but did not make them broadly available.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

They were somewhere under the hill of Rhaenys, behind the Guildhall of the Alchemists.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin