curse
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It went to the House and died, and Americans continue to change their clocks twice a year against their own clearly stated will, like a nation under a curse.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026
Shaun Murphy dashed Zhao Xintong's hopes of lifting the Crucible curse with a superb 13-10 win as he moved into the semi-finals of the World Championship.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
In the familiar fairy tale, sleep represents something close to the curse of death; in this version, and in Mr. Spears’s haunting musical landscape, it is a state preferable to waking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Running from murderous in-laws is nothing compared to the threat at the heart of “Something Very Bad is Going to Happen,” which depicts exchanging vows with a presumed soul mate as gambling with a curse.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
If one were inclined to believe in the supernatural, one might even suspect that the bakehouse at Ashton Place had fallen under some sort of a curse!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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