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evil eye

[ee-vuhl ahy] / ˈi vəl ˈaɪ /


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Depictions of roses, a skull, a goat and a Santería evil eye dance around them, illuminated in sepia spotlights and looking like they could have come straight from a deck of tarot cards.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

Roberts disingenuously implies that colleges and universities, like Yick Wo’s persecutors, discriminate “with an evil eye and an unequal hand.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2023

“They are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,” wrote critic Zoé Samudzi in a short monograph of William’s work published in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

It keeps the evil eye away from you.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

First, hiding the ball, she gave the stick the evil eye.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord


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