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sorceress

[sawr-ser-is] / ˈsɔr sər ɪs /
NOUN
enchantress
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In a perfect world, “Anónimo,” the sophomore effort by Argentine digital sorceress Juana Aguirre, would be an obvious candidate for album of the year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2025

Elphaba, in contrast, is a naturally talented sorceress whose green skin led her father to reject her from the moment she was born.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2024

The pattern across the jersey is inspired by a fifth-century BC vase attributed to Persephone, which depicts Ulysses and the sorceress Circe in Homer's Odyssey.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2024

The title figure is a formidable sorceress who ends up falling in love with one of the victims she keeps on her fantastical island.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 2023

In the realm of the real, she might have been just a girl, in hiding and in peril, but in the unconscious mind she was all-powerful: sorceress and storyteller, puppeteer and dark enthraller.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“Wicked” also benefited from mostly positive reviews hyping the performances of its leading sorceresses.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 24, 2024

Yennefer, meanwhile, comes to know power of a different kind via the world of magic, chaos, and its political split between male wizards and female sorceresses.

From Salon Dec. 21, 2019

This sequence, which features backup sorceresses in black capes like swirling bat wings, is impressively mysterious and dynamic, thanks to choreographer Rachel Leigh Dolan and costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.

From Washington Post Aug. 9, 2017

Halle Berry was playing Storm, who hails from African sorceresses and whose mutant powers include controlling the weather.

From New York Times May 19, 2016

As we first saw them, from a distance, they might have been so many sorceresses at their magic rites.

From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Elizabeth Robins Pennell




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