hex
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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
After putting Tommy and Billy to bed one last time, Wanda undoes the magical hex controlling the town and the twins dissolve along with their dad because they can’t exist without it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
The comment may have been a reference to a lyric in Bambie Thug's song, where they put a hex on an ex-boyfriend, but the singer felt it had crossed a line.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
That particular kind of magic—and it was a hex, really—had been outlawed hundreds of years ago.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
She'd never fought with anyone besides Winnie, and she didn't even know if Conjurors could cast hexes.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
Can he beat Kershaw, the hexed man of October, if they meet in Game 2 on Thursday?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2020
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
But, of course, I hexed myself also—no dates.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
“Whether it’s hexing the president, chatting in WhatsApp covens or featuring in TV reboots, radicalised women have been finding strength in the ancient pagan arts,” according to this bewitching piece in the Guardian.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019
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
