wonder-worker
noun
a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
wonder-working
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a word derived from
wonder-worker.
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a word derived from
wonderwork.
wonderworknouna wonderful work; marvel; miracle.
Example Sentences
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When Bush said during his 2003 State of the Union address that the American people had a "wonder-working power," it probably sounded like a nice turn of phrase to most Americans.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2020
In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was not the first time that Brown had claimed a wonder-working discovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rumania's Dr. Anna Asian took an easier course: from modern chemistry's shelf of wonder-working drugs, she picked a familiar item that, she thought, had shown some rejuvenating effects.
From Time Magazine Archive
The catacombs yielded any number of the bodies of martyrs, and Rome became a huge manufactory to meet the demands for wonder-working relics from every part of Christendom.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
