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Now a coolheaded town is rationally panicking that the Presidential visit has put a hex on a team that couldn’t lose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Like the store’s sign, the sky glowed Big Orange, hex code #F96302, or Pantone 165 C, available in the paint department inside.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

While the agony was prolonged, you can't imagine a player of Swiatek's quality will suffer a career-spanning hex.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025

After putting Tommy and Billy to bed one last time, Wanda undoes the magical hex controlling the town and the twins dissolve along with their dad because they can’t exist without it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

Thorn’s voice cracked with desperation, and Seven could think of nothing to do but to continue chipping away at their wood prison and getting the hex out of there.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

She then carries her grief through “Desierto,” a banda ballad that hexes a past love to an eternity of dreary karmic payback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

It was difficult to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt something as ephemeral as the bewitching of a cow or any of the other supposed hexes Parsons had been accused of.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2022

For your bandwagon-getting-on purposes, let’s quickly bring you up to speed, lest you sound like an idiot — or, worse, say something that hexes our team.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

In the comics, Wanda’s powers allow her to control probability via her hexes — the same word for her powers is also the shape of the fictional city she’s made for herself, yes.

From The Verge ● Feb. 26, 2021

When I'm done, the bedroom will be two adjacent hexes with walls around them and a crude ceiling.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

She publicly hexed murderers and rapists, wrote 13 books on ritual and witchcraft and founded the long-running International Goddess Festival — a biannual gathering of women in the California redwoods that continues to this day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

Can he beat Kershaw, the hexed man of October, if they meet in Game 2 on Thursday?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2020

And so I started to ask around: What should parents do about kindergarten, and only kindergarten, in this hexed year?

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2020

During three seasons at his new post, Silverman would do the unthinkable: unseat CBS and raise the perennially hexed ABC to unprecedented victory with shows like “Charlie’s Angels,” ”The Love Boat” and the miniseries “Roots.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2015

It hexed the boys, who would or would not ask me to dance, and made them less scary and as familiar and deserving of benevolence as girls.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

“Whether it’s hexing the president, chatting in WhatsApp covens or featuring in TV reboots, radicalised women have been finding strength in the ancient pagan arts,” according to this bewitching piece in the Guardian.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you stop hexing me.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 19, 2011

Crosby was so superstitious about hexing his Pirates that he and Kathryn listened to the game with their friends Charles and Nonie de Limur in Paris.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2010

But trust me, all my friends who think it is ridiculous, in the last year, they have begged me to use my powers of hexing.

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2

“There’s no point hexing me,” squealed the sprite, “there’s the elf you want right there.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer