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
  • For Onana, this spell will be remembered less for his ability than for the gap between promise and reality.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The cosmos is casting a spell this September, and love is as magnetic and transformative as ever.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As Calhoun summarizes, the first part takes up the subject of magic and necromancy, the second treats of witchcraft and sorcery, and the third discourses of all kinds of spirits and specters.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The portrayal of witchcraft in the 21st century is expansive and multi-dimensional.
    Taylor Crumpton, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now, the princess must gather enough strength from herself and her triplet brothers to undo a curse.
    Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As rocks and curses flew from the street, bullets spat from the middle window on the south side of the house.
    Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As Calhoun summarizes, the first part takes up the subject of magic and necromancy, the second treats of witchcraft and sorcery, and the third discourses of all kinds of spirits and specters.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Putting It All Together AI might feel like magic, but it’s powered by structure, not sorcery.
    Abhesh Kumar, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 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
  • Color Wow Dreaming Advanced Repair & Resurfacing Treatment Fried hair was revived once this reparative mask worked its magic.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The magic lives in the story told through materials and details, so embrace the frills.
    Ginger Perra, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Bewitchment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewitchment. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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