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curse

[kurs] / kɜrs /




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Films including The Mummy, The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula became global box-office hits, starring actors including Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Thousands of people in parts of Northern Ireland are being offered free testing for a disorder commonly known as the Celtic Curse.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Johnston McCulley, a popular pulp-fiction writer, created the character of Zorro in his 1919 serialized “The Curse of Capistrano.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

But the dunking spawned the legend of the "Curse of the Colonel" that said the Tigers would never win another title until the effigy was recovered.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

The Imperius Curse can be fought, and I’ll be teaching you how, but it takes real strength of character, and not everyone’s got it.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling




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