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curse

[kurs] / kɜrs /




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Films including The Mummy, The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula became global box-office hits, starring actors including Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

A test two years ago revealed she has haemochromatosis - a genetic disorder nicknamed "the Celtic Curse" that she inherited from her Lewis-born father.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

And Plaschke’s blood-boiling need to make the grand statement way before anything is certain doesn’t prove the Plaschke Curse is alive and well?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

Johnston McCulley, a popular pulp-fiction writer, created the character of Zorro in his 1919 serialized “The Curse of Capistrano.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Curse you, eighty-degree summer days, when I have to walk everywhere and live in a house with no AC.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon




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