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- noun mythology, science fiction, fantasy a person or other being capable of changing their physical form
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He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream.
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While Washington hot spots come and go, Bajaj's endurance 21 years after opening the Bombay Club, the first of his restaurants, derives in part from his ability to be a shape-shifter.
Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011
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While Sam (played by New Orleans-born Sam Trammel), may not be a vampire, he is a shape-shifter with a mysterious past and a penchant for saving Sookie.
The Many Loves Of Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood, Season 3) | myFiveBest 2010
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Mechanic and shape-shifter Mercy Thompson and her beau a werewolf encounter new threats.
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At first I thought that I might have been hallucinating—you know, some kind of after-effect from the bite I got from that shape-shifter— or that your craziness was contagious.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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“Frigg, Queen of the Aesir, wife of Odin the shape-shifter, look down from Asgard, where you sit before your wheel in Fensalir spinning golden thread.”
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream.
August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Aralorn is a shape-shifter and a spy, sent to determine what is going on with a powerful sorcerer, whose charisma blinds nearly everyone in the surrounding kingdoms to his true (and horrific) nature.
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Each thought a slippery trickster, a shape-shifter.
Happy Hour JP Reese 2011
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“I thought you said your rabbit was all better after that shape-shifter attack.”
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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