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bewitch

[bih-wich] / bɪˈwɪtʃ /


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Unlike Godard, he doesn’t try to bewitch you with theory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Well, when there are people available to bewitch.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022

Self-possessed and unflappable, he radiates serenity even as he brutally trounces his competition, a kind of soothing confidence that seems to bewitch even Trebek.

From Slate ● May 29, 2019

And he took a delight in jumbling scenes and time to both bewitch and bewilder his audiences.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2018

The Creevey brothers had managed to get hold of a stack of Support Cedric Diggory! badges and were trying to bewitch them to make them say Support Harry Potter! instead.

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

He has constructed a glossy fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles.

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

An Ozark faith healer bewitches two construction engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2020

The garden — also rich in watery pools and jumbo succulents in bright pots — still bewitches with its far-from-the-dusty-medina vibe.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2019

But Ms. Schulman does supply a magical, lighter-than-air young girl who bewitches Jake in the Daisy Buchanan manner, even if her name is Audrey and her heritage is Chinese.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011

This sweet, impulsive woman, with her blue eyes and her russet hair, bewitches you, as she does her little nephew, Martin.

From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall

It was during a performance of the new track “Comet,” which has only been recorded live thus far, that Zardoya bewitched fans into head-banging along with her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Studebaker halted Avanti production after only a year; but the design lived on until 2006, with its rights passing through a succession of wildcat coachbuilders too bewitched to help themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

"Wicked" has bewitched even its most reluctant fans, enticing them to overstay their welcome in the magical world of Oz.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

Chinese state media said the group had been "bewitched" by criminal organisations and were stranded in Thailand after illegally leaving the country.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

They did not, would not believe it, and her grand mother said, “It was the elves. We heard them. They must have bewitched her.”

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit

Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Outflanked by cruel and fickle gods at every turn, legendary Greek hero Odysseus outsmarted a one-eyed giant, suffered through the bewitching Sirens’ song and braved the Underworld’s dead denizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

When Conlon conducts the final performance of the company’s bewitching production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” Sunday afternoon that will also mark his last appearance as L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Gloriously unpredictable and, at times, impossible to read, they are wildly entertaining - bewildering, bewitching, brilliant.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

The fox would stare at him, looking deep into his eyes, bewitching him until he rose to follow it to its lair.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park


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