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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

While “I Put a Spell on You” is a fan-favorite, the super-creepy “Come Little Children,” sung by Parker’s Sarah to bewitch children for eating, is also a memorable performance.

From Washington Post Sep. 30, 2022

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

From Slate Jul. 17, 2020

Webster’s neighbors accused her of witchcraft in 1683, when she was around 60 years old, claiming she worked with the devil to bewitch local livestock.

From Salon Oct. 24, 2019

“Have they found a new way to bewitch us?”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

Orange wines may seem trendy, like a hipster fashion that bewitches bargoers from London to Tokyo.

From New York Times May 7, 2020

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

From The Guardian Nov. 9, 2019

"There's shorely sumthin' 'bout water that bewitches that boy," often remarked Lin.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden

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

Yes, the bye week bewitched them in 2022 and 2023, when the offense lost its swagger and the Dodgers were beaten in two stunning division series upsets by the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2025

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

You know, after I’d opened the Chamber of Secrets—after Voldemort had bewitched me with that terrible diary and I’d almost destroyed everything— HARRY: I remember.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

Released in June, the group’s fourth album, “Escrito en Agua,” is a bohemian tour de force — a bewitching combination of freestyle poetry, menacing Krautrock, melancholy shades of jazz and post-rock.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

She conjures a bewitching onscreen presence that many of her contemporaries could only dream of, pulling the viewer’s gaze with a single glare from her steely eyes or the quiver of her chin.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

It’s an enchanting companion to a bewitching exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

And from his point of view it looks like Sien has cast a spell on Vincent, bewitching him into thinking he loves her.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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