necromancy
Example Sentences
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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
There’s too much money at stake for the project’s backers not to deploy legal necromancy to save it.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022
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
Instead of necromancy, however, he uses advanced technology and bioengineering to produce advanced cyborgs that are stronger and smarter than most humans and work Off-world in performing a myriad of dangerous and hazardous tasks.
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2022
Conjure folk already used necromancy to talk to spirits for many reasons, so maybe not that one, because she already knew how to do it.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Vocabulary lists containing necromancy
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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