How to Use witching in a Sentence

witching

noun

• One of the most powerful Avengers is working on her witching skills.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• Quad witching days are typically some of the busiest trading sessions of the year.
  — Mischa Frankl-Duval, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Because these options expire within days or weeks, few are left for quadruple witching.
  — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• As October nears its festive end, the witching hour descends upon us yet again.
  — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
• Volatility is back up this morning, and that’s no surprise with quadruple witching tomorrow.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The winery’s name refers to water witching, the practice of locating underground water sources with a rod.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• Dousing, or water witching as it is known in America, has no basis in scientific fact.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Today is quad witching, the third Friday of the month of every quarter, as index and stock futures expire along with index and stock options.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Although today is a triple witching with stock options, futures and options on futures all expiring and that can sometimes cause a bit of volatility.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• This year most pre-Halloween festivities will be in schools on Friday before the witching date (Sunday).
  — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• Sunset is Kiosko 62's witching hour; as dusk approaches, the beach fills with bodies clustering around the ramshackle bar or sitting on the rocks like gulls.
  — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
• The other development to keep an eye on will be positioning ahead of Friday's triple witching expiration.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Trading activity tends to pick up on the quadruple witching day because investors readjust expiring positions.
  — WSJ, 16 June 2023
• Friday also marks what is known as quadruple witching, the simultaneous expiration of futures and options on stocks and indexes.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
• Friday was quadruple witching, when options and futures on both indexes and stocks expire simultaneously.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Meanwhile, Friday also happened to be a quadruple witching, a day that happens once every quarter when a bunch of stock and index options and futures contracts expire at the same time.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2021
• The witching hour of Halloween conjures up images goblins, costumes, and jack-o-lanterns and a real-life Houston Halloween tale which is far more sinister.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2019
• Today is triple witching expiration , the quarterly expiration of single stock and index options, and index futures.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
• For today, stocks are looking slightly lower in premarket and today is a quadruple witching where equity options, futures, options on futures and index futures all expire.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Any expiration can cause volatility, but a triple witching has potential to introduce an exaggerated amount of volatility.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• The witching hour finally arrives on December 2021, when Disney releases the first of the follow-ups.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• Equity transactions surged Friday amid a quarterly event known as quadruple witching, when options and futures on indexes and equities expire.
  — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• Execs dream of a worldwide witching hour, where audiences in countries far and wide marvel at Brian Flores’ blitz packages and debate whether Jonnu Smith made a football move.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
• What’s Coming Up Today is quadruple witching, a quarterly event which sees options and futures on indexes and stocks expire simultaneously.
  — Mischa Frankl-Duval, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Nothing is more relaxing after a day of witching than to sit with Madame Stephany and her fabulous mediums in the musty parlor of her Bona Thompson mansion, munching on sweets and sipping her special brew.
  — Staff Reports, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
• In September, quad witching coincided with major changes to several popular ETFs pegged to sector indexes.
  — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 21 June 2019