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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

Well, when there are people available to bewitch.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022

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

Self-possessed and unflappable, he radiates serenity even as he brutally trounces his competition, a kind of soothing confidence that seems to bewitch even Trebek.

From Slate ● May 29, 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

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

Paris alone seems to possess the charm that bewitches all conditions, all ages, all degrees. 

From The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory

As Ashim pokes through her things—a Penguin edition of new American plays, records by Joan Baez and the Rolling Stones—he finds himself increasingly bewitched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched the clocks to go extrafast.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" 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

It’s an enchanting companion to a bewitching exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

It was expensive, but worth every penny — a beautiful, abstract rendering of the film’s themes, displayed in a bewitching graphic style I couldn’t get out of my mind after coveting the poster online.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

This week, Rausch’s fellow Traitors, Housewives Candiace Dillard Bassett and Lisa Rinna, get to peacock in a massive crown and, for Rinna, a brooch as bewitching as it is deadly.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

They also interact with particles in the upper atmosphere to create the bewitching veils of light known as the auroras.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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