accursed
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Only someone who says he was reborn in the inferno of the Palisades fire could possess the clarity and willpower needed to bring salvation to an accursed land, they argue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Even the most accursed teams have next season.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
It is “at once an accursed and a sacred place,” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
That sounded apt for a planet of accursed and hurled clubs, but it didn’t fit Thursday at Royal St. George’s, where almost everybody liked their club faces.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021
Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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