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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

“Agatha All Along” is set three years after the events of “WandaVision,” which means Teen would have been 13 when Wanda’s hex was active.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

“Let me help you. I can undo the hex they put on you if you want me to.”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

However, it is easy to repulse the Pogrebin with simple hexes or Stupefying Charms.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

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

There was Souki of the Montreal Expos, who resembled nothing so much as a Pez dispenser hexed into consciousness.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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

“We were all the time you were hexed but we’re not any more,” said Jem.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

David Cameron, I suspect, merely wants to halt allegations of him "hexing" the team with his actual physical presence.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012

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