wonder-worker
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of wonder-worker
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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It doesn’t hurt that Oscar wonder-worker Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company is supervising the campaign; he also has the real-life Lee working the media.
From Time • Feb. 27, 2014
She sees him in something very like the traditional manifestation of the poet: unemphatic, vulnerable, fleet of foot and pale of gaze, a wonder-worker somewhat in awe of his own powers.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011
Hytner, the British wonder-worker who has shown that visual theatrics can serve the emotions rather than overwhelm them, doesn't do enough to relieve the show's darkness.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems likely that every tribe has in its folklore a mischievous character with supernatural powers, who is at the same time a butt for jokes and a successful wonder-worker.
From Indian Legends Retold by Eastman, Elaine Goodale
From those who have seen that famous trickster, we have learned that the Charleses, the Alexandres, even the Robert-Houdins, were children compared with the magical wonder-worker of the past generation.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
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