as in witches
someone who is believed in some cultures to be able to use magic to cure people who are sick, to control future events, etc.
went to the shaman for a remedy
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The call center gurus, the health system process engineers, and quality improvement wizards reading this will certainly say that the issues being experienced with call-center centralization isn’t the result of call center centralization.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024 -
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Kyle J. Russell,
USA TODAY,
6 Dec. 2024
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In those weeks of December 2023, various Spanish media outlets were talking about Vicente as the great discovery of the season, creating a phenomenon unbefitting of a second division player.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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But this trend isn’t just about the social media shock factor and tariff retaliation.—
Zoe Bayliss Wong,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Shamans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamans. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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