under a spell

idiom

: affected by magic
She felt like she was under a spell.

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Agatha had put Ralph under a spell, forcing him to play Wanda’s brother Pietro in her ruse to steal Wanda’s dark magic. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024 This is when Billy learns that Agatha’s still in Westview under a spell. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024 Kathryn Hahn reprises her role as the titular witch, still trapped in Westview under a spell Elisabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff placed on her in the previous show's finale. Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 5 Sep. 2024 So the King hires a hitman (the adorable Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas) to murder him, so their daughter, who was placed under a spell at birth that turns her into an ogre at midnight, can break the spell and become a beautiful human. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024 When Rosie runs into a sleeping princess in a tower, there's an option to kiss the princess, who is under a spell, to wake her up. Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024 Some portion of the country labored always under a spell. Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022 Perhaps fittingly, then, the plan’s execution seems to be under a spell too, with everyone lost in an entanglement of sloppiness, cross-purposes and bad luck. Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023 Yet Black residents like Marcus Jones speak about life here as if under a spell. Tyrone Beasonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022

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“Under a spell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20a%20spell. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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