occult
Example Sentences
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The love of ambiguity can feel somewhat coy—Ms. Tokarczuk gestures toward the existence of occult mysteries without deigning to fully portray them.
Charismatics emphasize practices that used to be fringe in American Christianity, such as “ideas of faith healing or miracles, prophecy, and the occult/demonic forces of opposition,” are normalizing as charismatic Christianity surges, he added.
From Salon
As it turns out, Gladys, avid in the occult, is keeping those kids in a trance to drain them of their energy and stay alive.
From Los Angeles Times
By “dead nails,” he meant that they had been believed to possess occult power.
From New York Times
Preoccupied with spiritualism and the occult as well as with her painting, Ms. Keane said nothing publicly even after discovering what her husband was up to, remaining passively complicit in the fraud for a decade.
From New York Times
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