alchemist

Lichtenberg considers himself an AI alchemist of sorts, because he often has to re-prompt the tools he uses to get the writing and analysis he’s looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

In a post on social media, Dead Ringers star Jon Culshaw called Dare the "wisest comedy alchemist and the dearest, dearest friend".

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

A self-proclaimed alchemist, Williams specializes in transforming wet soil into hardened sculptures that typically live outdoors, where the wind carries seedlings that may attach to the artist’s creations and bloom.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

Whoever can turn it invisible by bending light around it will change warfare just as dramatically as the Chinese alchemist 900 years ago who was looking for the elixir of life and discovered gunpowder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

He was no alchemist, no builder, no expert on metals or magnets.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Whereas the alchemists of old sought ways to turn base metals into gold, I am transforming a precious metal into gifts for the most important people in my life, family members both past and present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Astrologers consult a national zodiac, palm readers ring pagodas, would-be alchemists attempt to transmute mercury into gold and SIM card companies advertise dial-a-diviners.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

He has not of course transformed another chemical element into gold, as the alchemists sought to do.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

In previous centuries, alchemists had tried to convert one type of metal into another, usually lead into gold, with a notable lack of success.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023

With no less than the animating principle of the universe: “azoth,” the secret essence alchemists had sought for centuries.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor