alchemist
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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
What physicists Soddy and Rutherford realized was that nature itself is an alchemist, "transmuting" materials into other types of materials through the spontaneous process of radioactive decay.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
In one he had read that, many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe.
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
“And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?”
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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