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  • noun Plural form of adept.

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Examples

  • Criss Angel is a master of illusion, but he is also a master of himself and his own mind, and has harnessed enough inner-force to accomplish amazing feats, both by using what you may call trickery, and just as much by actually using a certain power that adepts from the middle east to China HAVE been utilizing for centuries.

    Viagra Magic Wonder Advertisement 2006

  • "The Goat Variations" by Jeff VanderMeer posits an alternate world (and ultimately several) in which an already-weary new President of North America and Britain contemplates the usefulness of a project involving "adepts" - people whose dreams are believed to be glimpses into the future.

    REVIEW: Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake 2010

  • All the Buddhist "adepts" -- experienced meditators -- who lent their brains to science had practiced meditation for at least 10,000 hours.

    How Thinking Can Change the Brain 2007

  • All the Buddhist "adepts" -- experienced meditators -- who lent their brains to science had practiced meditation for at least 10,000 hours.

    How Thinking Can Change the Brain 2007

  • "The Goat Variations" by Jeff VanderMeer posits an alternate world (and ultimately several) in which an already-weary new President of North America and Britain contemplates the usefulness of a project involving "adepts" - people whose dreams are believed to be glimpses into the future.

    SF Signal 2010

  • There are also the Hindu worshippers who see in the materializing phenomena, which are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to realize, that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish.

    The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel 2008

  • There are also the Hindu worshippers who see in the materializing phenomena, which are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to realize, that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish.

    The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel 2008

  • There are also the Hindu worshippers who see in the materializing phenomena, which are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to realize, that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish.

    The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel 2008

  • But remember that the Mandaeans also call their adepts ‘Nasurai’: this is no coincidence.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • But remember that the Mandaeans also call their adepts ‘Nasurai’: this is no coincidence.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

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