jinx
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The last thing we need is to have Plaschke jinx another one of our local teams.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026
Asked if he was playing as well as he ever has, he replied: "I don't want to jinx it so I will keep my mouth shut on that question."
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
With Frankenstein, he worries he’ll jinx the monster by talking too much about him, snuffing out the ineffable thing that he says fueled his performance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Perhaps it was a jinx, but a little more than eight months later, the Gallagher brothers would call it quits on August 22, 2009, at the V Festival in Weston Park, England.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
Hagrid shook his head; his expression was disbelieving but sympathetic, and Harry knew that Hagrid thought he had sustained a blow to the head, that he was confused, perhaps by the aftereffects of a jinx....
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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