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as in witch
a woman believed to have often harmful supernatural powers
people who used to believe that misfortune was caused by evil hexes and mischievous sprites
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as in curse
something that brings bad luck
there seemed to be a hex on him, for all of his business ventures came to naught despite his hard work
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as in spell
a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power
the wizard had put a hex on the evil gnome that turned him to stone
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as in to spell
to cast a spell on
I think our plans have been hexed from the start—everything is going wrong
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Recent Examples of hex
Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
For example, in HTML, the < and > characters are often escaped by converting them into their unicode hex value equivalents < and > to prevent them from being interpreted as HTML tags by a browser.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2021
The most common Punjabi phrase people are using to hex the president seems to have originated in a tweet unrelated to Trump, from a fan account dedicated to Cory Monteith, the Glee star who died in 2013.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020
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Noun
But the latter collapse is less a hex and more an injury.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
For example, in HTML, the < and > characters are often escaped by converting them into their unicode hex value equivalents < and > to prevent them from being interpreted as HTML tags by a browser.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
Verb
At the trial, the judge wondered if demonstrators outside the courtroom were using voodoo dolls, or planning to hex anyone.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2021
The most common Punjabi phrase people are using to hex the president seems to have originated in a tweet unrelated to Trump, from a fan account dedicated to Cory Monteith, the Glee star who died in 2013.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020
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Marvel’s Agatha All Along has reached the end of the Witches’ Road, which turned out to be quite the alternate reality constructed by a very powerful young witch.Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel of the same name and with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, the Wizard of Oz prequel musical traces the two witches' paths from students at Shiz University to Elphaba becoming the Wicked Witch of the West.Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Regardless of whether one sees it as a triumph or a curse, there is no reason to expect that low fertility will be reversed in any major way.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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Just one episode after breaking her family’s curse, Alice lies dead on the ground, and the witches—and especially Teen—are not happy.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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My pulse kept racing; my mouth went dry and prickly; dizzy spells came on.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The idea was that the ballad is a spell that opens the road, but, really, the ballad is the thing that motivated Billy’s subconscious to create the spell that creates the road.Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
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Loading your audio article SAN FRANCISCO — The Hayward man behind an iconic 2021 sideshow photograph has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for possessing guns that police found during a raid of his residence, court records show.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Later the process is reversed: Elizabeth possesses her son Jack to interact with her former lover.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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Merlin: Merlin was a key sorcerer in Arthurian Romance.Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
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Since 2013, the coastal California city of Morro Bay has been the site of witch sightings around Halloween time, as hundreds of people dressed in their finest sorcerer's outfits hop onto stand-up paddle boards for the Witches and Warlocks Paddle.Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2024
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Kodai Senga – Signed out of Japanese ball for five years and $75 million, this right-hander fell victim to the sophomore jinx, missing almost all of the 2024 campaign with various injuries.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
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Illinois Secretary of State Charles Carpentier was honored for being elected to a third term — breaking the two-term jinx that previously prevailed for the post.Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2024
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With more than 100 images of everything from the carousel to the coaster to cafes, this book will charm any Angeleno who has ever walked, surfed, swam, eaten, flirted or gazed at the pier.Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Canada Experimental filmmaker Rankin charmed Cannes Directors’ Fortnight audiences with this offbeat absurdist satire that affectionately borrows the tropes of Iranian arthouse cinema to imagine a parallel-universe Winnipeg where Farsi is the dominant tongue.Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Hex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hex. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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