magus

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The molecule came from the Conus magus, a sea snail found in the deep sea.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

And a venom peptide from a cone snail, Conus magus, led to Prialt, a chronic pain drug.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2022

A financial magus in Manhattan stipulates in his will that his possessions be sold.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2017

More famously, a 1983 novel is written as a fictional diary by Oscar Wilde, a photograph of whom decorates his study, sandwiched between Thomas More and the Elizabethan magus John Dee.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2017

It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan