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Recent Examples of jinx
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
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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jinx
Noun
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Ancient 'pharaoh's curse' fungus shows promise in killing cancer cells.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
2 July 2025
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The song breaks Booth's life-defining generational curse.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Verb
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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.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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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.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
Noun
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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.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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And the record-breaking hot spell is going to continue.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
Verb
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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.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
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Beyond the traditional elements of talent, grit, and charm, a huge part of what makes or breaks people is timing.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
23 June 2025
Verb
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More on culture An Eagles fan brought a Patrick Mahomes voodoo doll to the Super Bowl.—
Emily Bazelon,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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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.—
Charles Pulliam-Moore,
The Verge,
20 June 2023
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“Jinx.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jinx. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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