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whammy

noun as in spell

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In a one-two punch, a malaria vaccine in development pairs a shot of the live parasite that causes the disease with a whammy of infection-fighting drugs to immediately quell it.

Nepal is facing a double whammy of disastrous infection rates and depleting vaccine stocks.

From Time

California’s kelp forests, which provide a rich habitat for marine organisms, got hit by a double whammy of ecological disasters in the past decade, says UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr.

This week, I was dealing with the double whammy of having just returned home after some time away to a mostly empty fridge.

From Eater

I love being able to sing for my job and it’s my passion too, so it’s a double whammy.

From Ozy

Who can forget in 2012 the double whammy of GOP Senate candidates comments about rape?

“The double whammy of those two set me on a course of thinking about issues I had never done before,” Sherwood told the Times.

For stores like Walmart, which sells groceries and other goods to the same customers, the food-stamp cut will be a double-whammy.

Why new cuts will be a double whammy for Bentonville—and anyone with a mutual fund.

This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.

This time they ain't none of them screwy Venusians to put the whammy on him, and he's doing okay.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whammy, such as: hex, abracadabra, charm, conjuration, curse, and hocus-pocus.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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