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Recent Examples of crone
Though the character is traditionally played as a cackling crone, she'll be glammed up for Wednesday.
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EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Today, there are 12 practitioners at Tea & Tarot that do a variety of things including Akashic records, tea leaf readings, angel numbers and numerology, herbal facials, tarot, herbal tarot, crone magic, astrology, mediumship and animal communication.
—Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025
Hahn: Agatha wears this locket around her neck with Hecate — the maiden, mother, crone.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 June 2025
None of these books exactly celebrate the status of the crone; all offer midlife beauty-maintenance tips.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crone
Noun
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Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?—
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People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.—
Noun
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This marks her second Golden Globe nomination for a legendary portrayal of the good witch of Oz.—
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The show, which also starred Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs, centered on three sisters navigating the modern world — and often saving it — as powerful good witches.—
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“Crone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crone. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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