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sorcery

[sawr-suh-ree] / ˈsɔr sə ri /


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But Jareth and “Labyrinth” introduced a new generation to the magnitude of his bewildering, potent artistic sorcery.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

Point guard Donovan Dent, the last of UCLA’s regular starters to enter the game against Sacramento State on Tuesday, redeemed himself with some offensive sorcery against Presbyterian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

The Korshak Collection focuses on European and American works of fantasy, broadly incorporating all “what if” genres: science fiction, high fantasy, sword and sorcery, fairy tales, horror and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

For Nancy it’s a kind of sorcery — to transform something with your bare hands, to will and work a space into being more beautiful than it was before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

“Dalla told me something once. Val’s sister, Mance Rayder’s wife. She said that sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries."

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them.

From Time Magazine Archive

With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He broke the gold, and kneeling on his knees Read out the first of the two sorceries, Enchanting all the earth, the clouds above, The underworld, the mountains and the seas.

From The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus by Gilbert Murray




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