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Recent Examples of jinx
Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
Talk with the Clippers about their strong start and the tone can take on a baseball dugout protecting against the jinx of a no-hitter.
—Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Jerry Goldfeder, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
Not to jinx myself but the things that people expect a quick reply to are rarely urgent.
—Kelly Washington, refinery29.com, 18 Apr. 2023
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Noun
Harry Kane can rest assured that his jinx is unlikely to last longer than a season though, history shows us that Bayern Munich rarely fails for long.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
Talk with the Clippers about their strong start and the tone can take on a baseball dugout protecting against the jinx of a no-hitter.
—Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Verb
These folks back her, but think my support would jinx her campaign.
—Jerry Goldfeder, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
Not to jinx myself but the things that people expect a quick reply to are rarely urgent.
—Kelly Washington, refinery29.com, 18 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jinx
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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
Verb
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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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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
Verb
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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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“Jinx.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jinx. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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