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Now a coolheaded town is rationally panicking that the Presidential visit has put a hex on a team that couldn’t lose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Like the store’s sign, the sky glowed Big Orange, hex code #F96302, or Pantone 165 C, available in the paint department inside.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

Ms McAuley was awarded with a golden hex key medal and was congratulated by Kevin McCloud, who was the host of the event and is best known for presenting Grand Designs on Channel 4.

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

“Agatha All Along” is set three years after the events of “WandaVision,” which means Teen would have been 13 when Wanda’s hex was active.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

“That’s my final decision and if you don’t get out of the way for the Keepers I’ll hex you,” he bellowed.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

It was difficult to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt something as ephemeral as the bewitching of a cow or any of the other supposed hexes Parsons had been accused of.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2022

For your bandwagon-getting-on purposes, let’s quickly bring you up to speed, lest you sound like an idiot — or, worse, say something that hexes our team.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

In the comics, Wanda’s powers allow her to control probability via her hexes — the same word for her powers is also the shape of the fictional city she’s made for herself, yes.

From The Verge ● Feb. 26, 2021

Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

“He has more than seventy separate hexes operating on him. You ought to untie seventy knots.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

New emblem’s meh, the ex-term smelt; The bevy, recent-Red-Type-Pelt — They’re fettered, hexed; the shell needs shed.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022

She publicly hexed murderers and rapists, wrote 13 books on ritual and witchcraft and founded the long-running International Goddess Festival — a biannual gathering of women in the California redwoods that continues to this day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

And so I started to ask around: What should parents do about kindergarten, and only kindergarten, in this hexed year?

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2020

During three seasons at his new post, Silverman would do the unthinkable: unseat CBS and raise the perennially hexed ABC to unprecedented victory with shows like “Charlie’s Angels,” ”The Love Boat” and the miniseries “Roots.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2015

Seven and Thorn were spit out by the hexed wood and thrown backward onto the grass.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

She describes him in MoMA sprinkling water from a bottle, hexing the temple.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2017

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you stop hexing me.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 19, 2011

Crosby was so superstitious about hexing his Pirates that he and Kathryn listened to the game with their friends Charles and Nonie de Limur in Paris.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2010

But trust me, all my friends who think it is ridiculous, in the last year, they have begged me to use my powers of hexing.

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2

“There’s no point hexing me,” squealed the sprite, “there’s the elf you want right there.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer