necromancy

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But there’s a difference between breathing new life into a three-decade-old title and whatever awkward necromancy unnaturally extending the life of “Frasier” achieves without adding fresh layers to its eponymous figure.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023

On that plot description alone, “Perpetrator” may sound conventional — like “Veronica Mars” but with a touch of necromancy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Seeing dead people may seem like a curse, but to the teenage protagonist of the gothic, good-humored “Darby and the Dead,” necromancy is a Friday-night side hustle.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Today a substantial subset of people seem to regard science as the equivalent of necromancy or alchemy, or, like, Rumpelstiltskin.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021

Though he wore maester's robes, there was no chain about his neck; it was whispered that he had lost it for dabbling in necromancy.

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