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[heks] / hɛks /


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Audiences learned in the 2024 series, “Agatha All Along,” that although Billy and Tommy’s physical forms disappeared when Wanda undid her hex at the end of “WandaVision,” their souls remained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

Why have Townsend's Scotland had hex on England?

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

At lunch and after school they often gathered at a wooden table in the hallway that people called the hex table, even though, as Ian pointed out, it was an octagon, not a hexagon.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

But a tiny subset of people also develop less common symptoms, ones that can sound like hexes from a children’s story: hairy tongues, purple toes, welts that sprout on their faces.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

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

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

Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

But since a woman combing her hair hexes beginnings, my aunt rarely found an occasion to look her best.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

New emblem’s meh, the ex-term smelt; The bevy, recent-Red-Type-Pelt — They’re fettered, hexed; the shell needs shed.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022

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

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

The Curse of the Billy Goat — the ludicrous notion that an aggrieved tavern owner hexed the team for denying his goat entry to Wrigley Field for the 1945 World Series — is no more.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016

“I forgot — it was the custard creams we hexed —” Within a minute, however, Neville had molted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal.

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

She describes him in MoMA sprinkling water from a bottle, hexing the temple.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2017

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




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