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bewitch

[bih-wich] / bɪˈwɪtʃ /


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Unlike Godard, he doesn’t try to bewitch you with theory.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

The prosecution alleged that Phiri and Candunde were hired by a fugitive former MP to bewitch Hichilema.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2025

Well, when there are people available to bewitch.

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2022

The Friz’s diverse interests, complete fearlessness, and unflagging cheer both annoy and bewitch her students.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2020

The Creevey brothers had managed to get hold of a stack of Support Cedric Diggory! badges and were trying to bewitch them to make them say Support Harry Potter! instead.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

He has constructed a glossy fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles.

From Salon May 20, 2022

An Ozark faith healer bewitches two construction engineers.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2020

Its heroine Seren must battle a vengeful supernatural being that bewitches her adoptive aristocratic Welsh family.

From The Guardian Nov. 9, 2019

The garden — also rich in watery pools and jumbo succulents in bright pots — still bewitches with its far-from-the-dusty-medina vibe.

From Washington Post Aug. 1, 2019

He is a handsome fellow, a first-rate orator, and bewitches by his face and his tongue some very smart ladies.

From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell

By the end of the second hour—partly spent traversing grid-patterned streets to avoid an accident—I was bewitched.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2024

Left-armer Kuldeep bewitched England for 5-72, while Ravichandran Ashwin marked his own 100th Test with 4-51.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

It’s wired somewhere deep into our caveman brain — we’re bewitched by calamity.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2023

Astonished and like one bewitched the monk gazed at the ferryman.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

In another context, the size, style and theme of Ms. Kiwanga’s work would make it bewitching.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

What’s so bewitching about Mexico City, and the country at large, Iñárritu thinks, is the people’s worldview and how they confront their realities.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

Of the ones that have survived, Isidora is the most bewitching, almost perfectly preserved and flawlessly executed.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Gloriously unpredictable and, at times, impossible to read, they are wildly entertaining - bewildering, bewitching, brilliant.

From BBC Feb. 14, 2026

For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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