the curse

noun

old-fashioned + informal
: the process of menstruation

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Whoever left it there had a vendetta against her own, or someone else, as researchers suspect that a slave had written the curse either against the four slaves named, or an unknown person. Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026 If Evan took that ferry to Boston and the curse was still active, would Tom — who wasn’t born on Widow’s Bay and thus isn’t bound to it like the locals — have to watch his son die in the same slow, agonizing fashion that his wife did? Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 June 2026 The two threads are linked from the start — Tom wants to end the curse so Evan can leave the island safely — but the final episode allows those two tracks to fully collide. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2026 Ultimately, Evans allegedly told the victims that their curse was tied to finances, and that the only way to remove the curse was to liquidate their holdings and send the money to her in cash or gold bars, according to court documents. Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for the curse

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