miracle worker
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈmɪrəkl ˈwɜrkər/
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hacedor de milagros
- After the accident, the surgeon was hailed as a miracle worker for saving her life.
- doctors are miracle workers
- real miracle workers
- medical miracle workers
And I just feel like this is a miracle worker.
- And I just feel like this is a miracle worker.
- Like I was telling you this before the podcast, Wim Hof is kind of like this modern day miracle worker.
- We begin the week with the story of an NBC News producer who fell in love with a super surgeon, a pioneer, a miracle worker.
Examples
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"Well, sir, you're a miracle worker," I said.
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Seems that the great miracle-worker has lost his touch.
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Some have even called him a miracle worker.
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You were always a miracle worker with your hands.
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I wanted to meet this miracle worker.
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I am the miracle worker.
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You are a miracle worker, sir.
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You are a miracle worker.
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You truly are a miracle worker, Wayne Fox!
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I'm just not a miracle worker, Torn.
Synonyms
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5.5
A person with much greater strength or powers than normal people
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7.9
A man believed to do amazing or impossible things
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9.9
A person who does magic to make impossible things happen
How Restorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
miracle + worker
The meaning 'a person who performs miracles' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'miracle' (an extraordinary/divine event) with 'worker' (a person who performs work), so a learner who knows both words can infer the compound meaning. This noun+noun composition is compositional and cross-linguistically common, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Miracle worker comes from old stories about saints and healers who seemed to work real miracles. That's why miracle worker now means someone people believe can 'perform miracles'.