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• n  a person with unusual powers of foresight
• n  someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

• By the strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require .
• He is a "rubber-wristed illusionist," says Waugh, a cricketing great deceived by Murali's bag of tricks more than once.
• Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist.

• visionary
• seer
• magician
• prestidigitator
• conjurer
• conjuror

News & Articles

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• Amazing Resonance Experiment Video Shows Frequency As The Secret To Complexity
  Nikola Tesla famously said, ?If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.? The video above by the pseudonymous Belgian optical illusionist Brusspup (previously featured on Forbes.com here) has made the best documentation so far of the Chladni plate experiment, where grains of salt are vibrated on a square plate. At certain predictable audio ...
  June 10, 2013 - Forbes
• David Copperfield: Now you’ll see him — and his magic — for longer at MGM Grand
  Although illusionist David Copperfield has a new three-year contract and a theater named for him for his new show at MGM ...
  June 6, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun
• Video: Footage from Adam Ondra on Illusionist (5.14d)
  In late May, Adam Ondra established Illusionist (5.14d) in Flatanger, Norway, in the Hanshelleren cave. This is the same area where he put up the world’s first 5.15c, Change.
  June 5, 2013 - Climbing Magazine

Quotes

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• Phil Jackson in Los Angeles Times
  Bowen's faster than the eye . . . he's really quick with his hands,Jackson said. "He gets in and bothers, but he's back out before the shots are up usually. You've got to give him credit. He's obviously an illusionist at some level."
• Augie Garrido in USA Today
  We've decided with our new style of play that has taken place in the last nine games that we've added a new assistant coach - (illusionist) David Copperfield,Garrido, 70, joked at a Sunday press conference. "Somebody asked me yesterday...
• Shlomo Scharf in Times Online
  He is an illusionist, incapable of using a proper game plan and relying on fortune rather than skill,Scharf said. "The fact that he never played football is enough to disqualify him from training the national team. I take my hat off to him...