magus
Example Sentences
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The molecule came from the Conus magus, a sea snail found in the deep sea.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
And a venom peptide from a cone snail, Conus magus, led to Prialt, a chronic pain drug.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2022
A financial magus in Manhattan stipulates in his will that his possessions be sold.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2017
More famously, a 1983 novel is written as a fictional diary by Oscar Wilde, a photograph of whom decorates his study, sandwiched between Thomas More and the Elizabethan magus John Dee.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017
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
