wonder-worker
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of wonder-worker
First recorded in 1590–1600
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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
Honoured by some as a saint, prophetess, and wonder-worker, ridiculed by others as a fool, persecuted as a dangerous fanatic or deceiver, driven from one country to another, she died in the Crimea in a.d.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Here, in retreat From the world's noises, dwells a holy man, A wonder-worker of unfathomed power, Now long forgotten by the troubled world Except me only.
From Mr. Faust by Arthur Davison Ficke
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