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alchemist

[al-kuh-mist] / ˈæl kə mɪst /


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It will take even the great alchemist Emery time to fashion his new team, but he has been given the materials to work his magic for another season aiming for the top four.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Lichtenberg considers himself an AI alchemist of sorts, because he often has to re-prompt the tools he uses to get the writing and analysis he’s looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

A self-proclaimed alchemist, Williams specializes in transforming wet soil into hardened sculptures that typically live outdoors, where the wind carries seedlings that may attach to the artist’s creations and bloom.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

Whoever can turn it invisible by bending light around it will change warfare just as dramatically as the Chinese alchemist 900 years ago who was looking for the elixir of life and discovered gunpowder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

But his heart was never quiet, even when the boy and the alchemist had fallen into silence.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

Whereas the alchemists of old sought ways to turn base metals into gold, I am transforming a precious metal into gifts for the most important people in my life, family members both past and present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Astrologers consult a national zodiac, palm readers ring pagodas, would-be alchemists attempt to transmute mercury into gold and SIM card companies advertise dial-a-diviners.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Financially speaking, the wellness industry has finally succeeded where centuries of alchemists failed: turning magnesium into gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

He has not of course transformed another chemical element into gold, as the alchemists sought to do.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

But the alchemists were strange people, who thought only about themselves, and almost always refused to help him.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho


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