bewitchment

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Recent Examples of bewitchment Her work, then, is the work of resuscitation via bewitchment. Ocean Vuong, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025 But if there is some kind of bewitchment going on in these encounters, Evelyn is entirely immune. Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025 Mercury well aspected on the 6th finds you in accord with others and Venus in Pisces accents playfulness on the 8th and romantic bewitchment on the 15th. Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023 One depends on a set of abstract rules; the other on a sequence of mutual bewitchments. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019 Here, where both land and life are flat, the privations of rural teenage existence yield wild and elemental bewitchments. New York Times, 1 June 2017 The ergot fungus grows on cereals such as rye and produces several neurological symptoms that were historically attributed to bewitchment for many centuries. Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewitchment
Noun
  • Spurs were clunky and predictable in possession, apart from a spell at the end of the first half when Mohammed Kudus looked too quick and too sharp for the Wolves defence.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Michigan residents are in for another warm spell as the weather forecast shows temperatures in the 80s this week and mostly dry conditions.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Erik Gustafsson hasn’t been able to re-create whatever witchcraft was needed for his weirdly spectacular 2022-23 season.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Black ritual salt is not safe to eat and is mostly used in witchcraft and spiritual practices to protect against negative energy.
    Lindsey DeSoto, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The last of the old curses and the purest championship drought in the sport.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • After its patriarch’s mysterious death, the pharma family falls prey to an ancient curse.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In this Fixed sign, Mars’ sorcery is much like a surgeon or a chemist, cutting deep to unveil what’s lingering beneath the surface.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Sheibani and McCraney know that the way to bring out the sorcery of a play layered in myth and ritual is not to weigh it down.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a little bit of mystery with the spirits, incantations and rituals.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
  • How to turn a human into a statistic, an alien, an enemy combatant–transformations worked not through incantation, but through the movement of paper in government offices.
    Celia Bell July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The horse’s magic repeats itself in every room — bright eyes, smiles, awe and shock.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That’s all part of magic, though.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Bewitchment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewitchment. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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