Producing remarkable, beneficial, or seemingly marvelous results.
Reach for it when describing a person, force, or act believed to produce extraordinary results
The story celebrates a wonder-working healer who serves remote villages.
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everyday
Fits when strong admiration is meant without causation
Careful Marvelous praises rather than explains results.
warm
Fits when restoration of health or wholeness is central
Careful Healing is narrower and should not promise a cure.
warm
Fits when the result appears beyond natural expectation
Careful Miraculous makes a religious or supernatural claim.
professional
Fits when deep durable change is the actual effect
Careful Transformation can be negative.
formal
Fits when substantial influence or effect is demonstrable
Careful Power can harm as well as help.
wonder-working power
The hymn celebrates wonder-working power in language of its period.
wonder-working healer
Stories portrayed the traveling healer as wonder-working.
wonder-working remedy
Advertisements falsely presented the tonic as a wonder-working remedy.
Keep in mind
Wonder-working often carries religious or archaic force; for health products it can become a misleading efficacy claim.
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