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After undoing her hex that let her live out a version of a happily ever after with Vision, Wanda had to watch him and their kids — twin boys Tommy and Billy Maximoff — disappear.

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

Ms McAuley was awarded with a golden hex key medal and was congratulated by Kevin McCloud, who was the host of the event and is best known for presenting Grand Designs on Channel 4.

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

If you can contact it, I can draw hex numbers on the wheels and you can send me six bytes at a time.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

For the next few days he spent all of his free time either in the library with Hermione and Ron, looking up hexes, or else in empty classrooms, which they sneaked into to practice.

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

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

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

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

They also learned that the Cursed Toads hadn’t just hexed the Dimblewits.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

“Whether it’s hexing the president, chatting in WhatsApp covens or featuring in TV reboots, radicalised women have been finding strength in the ancient pagan arts,” according to this bewitching piece in the Guardian.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019

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