magus

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The molecule came from the Conus magus, a sea snail found in the deep sea.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

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

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

He stood above me, held the book aloft, and in a loud, even piercing tenor, declaimed: “Hoc anno, servus nomine Eunis qui a paucis esse magus dicebatur in dominos suos coortus est.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson