witch
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Before a first-grade production of “Hansel and Gretel,” for example, parents are assured that Gretel would not be pushing the witch into an oven but instead will hold “a generative dialogue” about loneliness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He vowed not to “conduct any witch hunts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Seeking the truth is not a witch hunt,” Paul said before the vote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
“Well …” The witch paused, and I waited, certain she was about to tell me some great mystery, a secret that would make everything clear.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“Practical Magic 2” is an exercise in girl-power pandering in which the Owenses, three pairs of sisters from the same family of witches, live gingerly on an idyllic Massachusetts island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Students really enjoy Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” — it’s all about the human condition and cancel culture, forbidden love and lies and deceit, with witches in the forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Angle and his team call their first product the Familiar—the term witches use for their supernatural animal companions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The sisters descended from a line of witches that doomed any man who fell in love with an Owens woman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
There was a handful of other witches in the small café, sipping on tea and nibbling on dainty cakes in the shape of different animals.
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
Instead, Thursday will effectively be the witching day as options expire one day early.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
The real risk, according to Matt Thompson, is what happens in the days after a triple witching.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
Maybe this duo hasn’t monetized their show quite yet, and if that’s the case, perhaps they could choose a time other than the witching hour to record their macabre podcast?
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 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
People said it was a magic tree from the secret grove in Everica where the trees walked, whispering to the witching woman who lived among them.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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