sorcery
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To HBO, this “Game of Thrones” spinoff is a bridge between its lucrative sword, sorcery and old magic high fantasies.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Point guard Donovan Dent, the last of UCLA’s regular starters to enter the game against Sacramento State on Tuesday, redeemed himself with some offensive sorcery against Presbyterian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
The Korshak Collection focuses on European and American works of fantasy, broadly incorporating all “what if” genres: science fiction, high fantasy, sword and sorcery, fairy tales, horror and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
What followed, from the first ball of the innings, bordered on sorcery.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
Farmer had a deeper explanation about sorcery, and he liked to engage me in conversations about it.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries."
From Time Magazine Archive
Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them.
From Time Magazine Archive
With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Oh, now I know the night, and comprehend the sorceries of the moon, and all the dark persuadings that have their birth in storms and winds.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Vocabulary lists containing sorcery
The House of Hades
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A Mango-Shaped Space
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Prince Caspian
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