alchemist
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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
Outside, it was a cold November evening, but inside the West End venue, Mulatu was bathed in the warm embrace of a crowd eager to get one last glimpse of this alchemist at work.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
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
“Good afternoon, ma’am. I’m trying to find out where the alchemist lives here at the oasis.”
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
Transforming base materials into gold was one of the elusive goals of the alchemists of yore.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
In previous centuries, alchemists had tried to convert one type of metal into another, usually lead into gold, with a notable lack of success.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
Of course ‘made to work’ is a slippery concept: plenty of alchemists thought they had seen base metal turn into gold, and plenty of doctors thought they had cured their patients through bloodletting.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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