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Recent Examples of hag
Ah, the famous and epic love between an up-and-coming designer and his hag.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2026
The regulars fired at them with a booming 12-pounder that made the American boys lift their knees like old hags, trip and founder as tentacles of water dragged them under.
—Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026
Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2026
The regulars fired at them with a booming 12-pounder that made the American boys lift their knees like old hags, trip and founder as tentacles of water dragged them under.
—Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026
Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hag
Noun
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And sure, a little bit of that is all the witch stuff, but, more important, as Claire talks about in this episode, back in season two, Master Raymond told her about the pale-blue light that surrounds Claire.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Giant subterranean sandworms measuring 1,500 feet long; a narcotic that fuels interstellar travel and bends a user’s perception of space-time; a mystical cabal of eugenicist witches—the list goes on.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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At a central spot, the crones halted, pulled out their cauldron and began the dark ritual.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Somewhere in Budapest right now, two crones hovered over a cauldron of goulash are looking ahead to Sunday.—
Greg Cote
February 3,
Miami Herald,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Hag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hag. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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