magus

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So begins the mythology of Gabriel García Márquez, the magus of magical realism, a Nobel laureate who blended truth and fiction to fit the outsize reality of Latin American life.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

And a venom peptide from a cone snail, Conus magus, led to Prialt, a chronic pain drug.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2022

Burgess originally intended to capture Death but when Dream materializes instead, unconscious and helpless, the "magus" decides he'll do just fine.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2022

Somehow, the younger Fellini strikes me as sadder and wiser than the all-powerful magus he would eventually become.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 17, 2020

It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan