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
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 treated his employees well, but there was room for only one magus in his court.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 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
