witch
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Jason Arday’s academic rise and fall set off a debate about whether he was a fantasist and plagiarist or victim of a racial witch hunt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Seeking the truth is not a witch hunt,” Paul said before the vote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I still find glitter ground into our kitchen tiles from the Halloween when he made his daughter a purple witch costume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He claimed he had been made a "scapegoat" after a "witch hunt" following the operation, carried out at the Royal Oldham Hospital, where he was working as a locum on 25 August 2020.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The witch put a hand on his leg, and where she touched him, his skin went numb.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Angle and his team call it the Familiar—the same term witches use for their supernatural animal companions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
It’s not just entrepreneurial witches selling spells on Etsy.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
Mr. Fry is at his best in his readings of Harry’s adventures among witches, wizards and Muggles, which came on the American market last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Though brides are trapped in castles and men wearing bird masks want to burn the witches, this story is not so out of our time or place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025
“Yes, it is. Seven, I don’t want you to get your hopes up. Unfortunately, there are some powerful witches who oppose the amendment.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Eichel s witched agents last month and is now represented by Creative Artists Agency’s Pat Brisson, who represents numerous high-profile NHL players.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2021
Since then, he’s witched - or doused - for unmarked graves at other cemeteries in southeast Nebraska, and for his wife’s family in Kansas.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2015
In the eyes of oldtime politicians Franklin Roosevelt has be witched the U. S. people with his smile, the toss of his head, the hearty frankness of his manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maurice Evans, apparently a bit witched himself, guest-stars as Samantha's warlock father.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Only a certified idiot would set foot in there. Place is witched, and a deathtrap to boot.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Triple witching days can lead to higher volume External link and volatility.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Fittingly, Day made it in the witching hours after last year’s Niteharts Festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The real risk, according to Matt Thompson, is what happens in the days after a triple witching.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
Yet these stories have real heft and depth and will linger in the imagination well beyond the witching time of year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Anyone could see it was three thirty—the peak of the witching hour—but Gen stared at the clock blankly.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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