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charm

[chahrm] / tʃɑrm /




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He understands how to use his innate magnetism to charm his way through even the silliest scripts, occasionally creating a dissonance between the film and his performances that makes even the duds memorable.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Whether you’re seeking an event to charm or to inspire frights, there’s plenty our region has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Twenty-one high-flying contestants are vying to win £100,000 for their charity of choice with all the charm, persuasion and manipulation they can muster.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Weaving legend into history, Law evokes the “indescribable charm which invests all ancient and historic places.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Perhaps the masking charm had worked; or perhaps, as Renn pointed out, the bear was in the west, wreaking havoc among the clans.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The world's largest jewellery brand showed off bracelet charms featuring Vietnam's national flag and a bowl of pho noodle soup as it opened a manufacturing centre in the country on Thursday, its first outside Thailand.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Jo learns to her dismay that she might have to surrender her precious friendship bracelet, whose charms represent her history with Raissa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

One of the charms of baseball is a cliche: Anything can happen — in a single game or in a short series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

But the Independent was cooler on the launch episode as a whole, saying the show "wastes Nigella's prodigious charms and misses chance for a true revamp".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they’ll always be a part of her.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

She correctly deduces that he knows nothing of personal tragedy, though she is clearly charmed by him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Ryan Murphy’s new psychological thriller, based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, follows the charmed teens of 1980s Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

In the 2000s, Carradine charmed a new generation of fans as lovable TV dad Sam in “Lizzie McGuire.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

I would wander in with my perfectly sized tote, allow whatever charmed me to determine dinner and wait for the ingredients to organize themselves.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

“And very surprised, because almost nobody can see fairies and other charmed folk anymore. They’ve all forgotten how.”

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

It said Luke was a "charming, approachable and genuinely lovely lad", whose "kindness, enthusiasm and character" touched all at the sixth form.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Steffi Cao argues that we should be wary of the algorithm that incentivizes mindless scrolling, but there is nonetheless something charming about the wacky human storytelling that drives these videos.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Boricua culture, old and new, is celebrated in a charming image of a langosta vendor atop a horse and a portrait of Bad Bunny proudly performing in front of a flapping Puerto Rican flag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Some found it charming, some unbearable, but in the end everyone shrugged: Well, he’s the boss.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

When I walk in, Alex gives me a charming, crooked smile, which makes my stomach do a somersault.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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