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Recent Examples of jinx
Noun
Not to jinx myself, but the things that people expect a quick reply to are rarely urgent.—Kelly Washington, refinery29.com, 2 Jan. 2024 Don’t want to jinx things but our budgets are a tiny bit up for fall 2025.—Denni Hu, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
The jinx broke when the Jordan basketball teams won a double victory during last Friday’s game with Chaska.—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 Unless, of course, the writer’s jinx overcomes the tie pin and the palm trees.—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jinx
The Italian side possess a serious number of defenders who are simply not good enough to represent a club with ambitions of winning Serie A while competing in the UEFA Champions League.
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Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
In 1940, the federal government enacted The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act prohibiting people from hunting, selling or possessing an eagle ‒ in effort to prevent further population decline.
This is what Jesse, Scott, Jax Taylor, and all the rest of the people who are about to fall under the spell of a man who sports an unironic goatee fail to understand.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
And the record-breaking hot spell is going to continue.
Thomas Edison makes real the once fantastical notion of an entire building lit up by electricity, and Oscar Wilde charms the New York aristocracy with his witticisms, if not his plays.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
Beyond the traditional elements of talent, grit, and charm, a huge part of what makes or breaks people is timing.
More on culture An Eagles fan brought a Patrick Mahomes voodoo doll to the Super Bowl.
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Emily Bazelon,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
Despite his clearly enjoying killing people for personal reasons, the movie’s Kraven seems to think of himself as a kind of antihero, which voodoo practitioner Calypso (Ariana DeBose) rightfully clocks as a red flag.
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