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
  • Instead of croquet games or slam books, the four teen girls of The Craft use spells to help get through their adolescent angst.
    Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Can Joan save the spell’s unwilling host from irreversible damage?
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Amy had been practicing—or attempting to practice—witchcraft.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of Zendaya’s Mary-Jane and Jacob Batalon’s Ned, Peter’s new friends are influencer Harry Osborn (Zeno Robinson) and secret witchcraft user Nico Minoru (Grace Song).
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Based on Gege Akutami’s manga, the film follows Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, two sorcerers tasked with protecting Amanai Riko, a student chosen as the Star Plasma Vessel, while being pursued by curse users and a religious cult.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Machine is both an old idea and a modern curse.
    Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Game of Thrones‘ upcoming prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes place 100 years before the events of the original series, in a Westeros where sorcery and dragons are a thing of the past.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Ready to let the humble-yet-mighty brown work its magic in your wardrobe this fall?
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But the real magic comes from strategically arranging guests to spark conversations.
    Editors of Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Bewitchment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewitchment. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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