magus

Example Sentences

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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

When Barnes was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for “The Sense of an Ending,” one of the judges called him “an unparalleled magus of the heart.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

Perhaps no biography should be written: perhaps this magus should be allowed to vanish from the scene—affable, implacable, unknowable. ♦

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

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