necromancy

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But there’s a difference between breathing new life into a three-decade-old title and whatever awkward necromancy unnaturally extending the life of “Frasier” achieves without adding fresh layers to its eponymous figure.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023

There’s too much money at stake for the project’s backers not to deploy legal necromancy to save it.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

Seeing dead people may seem like a curse, but to the teenage protagonist of the gothic, good-humored “Darby and the Dead,” necromancy is a Friday-night side hustle.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Numerous startup companies promise people a small piece of necromancy, and control over their own posthumous communications.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2020

Mrs. Cobb strode on in front of him, passing a stairway that rose up too steeply, and then a library hoarding shelves of dark volumes—the arts of necromancy, Turner figured.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt