jinxed
Example Sentences
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There’s even some blame for New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, a Mets fan who apparently jinxed the team early April when he posed for a photo-op with unsettling team mascots Mr. and Mrs. Met.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
If it tanks, I’ll have jinxed it on behalf of all those EpiPen overpayers from the mid-2010s.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
That’s a label not to be used lightly, residing somewhere between jinxed and doomed as an explanation of never-ending woe.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
“A few people were telling me, maybe you jinxed them. I said, ‘It’s either going to give us good luck or jinx them.’”
From Washington Times • Jun. 18, 2023
Like any celebrity, Ignatius had attracted his fans: his mother’s jinxed relatives, neighbors, people Mrs. Reilly had not seen for years.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
