curse

For a story about witches who have both the curse to kill something and the ability to resurrect it, reappraising a dead-on-arrival film is appropriately meta.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The film resurrects the story of sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, modern day witches who face a curse that sees any man they fall in love with doomed to an early death.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

I know Bill Plaschke put the curse on them by declaring an undefeated season but coach Sean McVay and the Rams have to do better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Our country has a long and famous history of spirited disputations and political acrimony; it is both a blessing and a curse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

I didn’t even have a real name, only a curse.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Demonstrating yet again that horrible and failed movies can make for delectable documentaries, “Boorman and the Devil,” from director David Kittredge, does not deal with curses, unless bad decisions count, and they probably should.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Bronwen Barclay had no concerns about "curses" when she got married in a second-hand dress.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

As quickly as possible, the crew wrapped up their ill-gotten gains and made for the exit as the four guardians wailed pleas and threats and curses behind them.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024

He curses out Brian, then responds to Alice's suggestion that forgiving Louis may help him by doing that — then in the next breath, making Louis promise to cut ties with his daughter.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024

Percy, realizing what Harry was trying to do, stopped clinging to the body and helped; together, crouching low to avoid the curses flying at them from the grounds, they hauled Fred out of the way.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

"The victim should be consoled at this time, not cursed," one of them read.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

And with most of the original cast now long gone, the latest sequel often feels as cursed as that treacherous netherworld.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Another is a pungent work of terror about a cursed man who inexplicably perishes in the village’s crypt, forcing the townspeople to investigate by disinterring the bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Then we have Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, whom Odysseus follows to Troy and, ultimately, his cursed fate.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

If anything was more feared than an Eye, it was the Eye’s weapon—the source of the knight’s power, cursed to destroy anyone who touched it other than the knight himself.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee!

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020

I have; and I am curst, And Misery makes the moments, as they fly, Harder than stone, and sorrier than a sigh.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

Don't touch me, curst was he who taught a Man to soak in boiling water.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

But those 'tis known who die of thirst Ne'er rest in quiet graves, So now he storms with dryness curst As ghost around and raves: 'Rouse there! rouse out of the house, there!

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Come, curst gold, Thou common ore of mankind, that putt'st odds Among the rout of nations, I will make thee Take thy right place!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various

Ars Technica reported last year that cursing would disable Google’s AI overview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“I always tell people, it’s not the million-dollar estate that has people cursing probate. It’s the ’72 Ford Torino up on blocks in your garage,” said Keller.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Indeed, old photos show a room with seating for all, with sharply dressed riders reading newspapers and enjoying casual conversation rather than standing in a sweaty mob and cursing their travel agents.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Slicker - Ipswich Town's back-up who has yet to play a league game - will be cursing his sloppy kick-out seconds after coming on that led to the opener.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

After the initial side effects wore off and they had stopped cursing my name, I told them what I had discovered the night before.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall