hex
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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
The Teen’s true identity remains a secret thanks to the sigil hex that prevents others from hearing any identifying information about him, including his real name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
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
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
As I held my stare with Miss Trotter I knew it didn’t matter that I didn’t believe in hexes or curses.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 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
Once they had found out, they had been hexed with forbidden magic in order to go along with the Uncles’ schemes when they did not want to.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
