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as in amulet
something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil
an old cap that I use as a charm for whenever I play softball
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as in appeal
the power of irresistible attraction
a young singer with the kind of charm that turns a performer into a star
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as in spell
a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power
recited a charm to make the prince fall in love with her
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as in to fascinate
to attract or delight as if by magic
a quaint seaside village that charms all who visit it
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as in to possess
to cast a spell on
in one version of the tale, it is a vengeful fairy who charms Sleeping Beauty so that she falls into a sleep for a hundred years
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Recent Examples of charm
Teaghan Skulszki, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Popularized by British writer and director Elinor Glyn in the 1920s, the term it girl describes a woman whose charm is hard to characterize but impossible to ignore.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
The two met in 2005, and though Kidman was instantly charmed, Urban didn’t call her back for months.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2025
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Noun
To him, Tavernier is one of those places in the Keys that still has local, small-town charm.
—Teaghan Skulszki, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Popularized by British writer and director Elinor Glyn in the 1920s, the term it girl describes a woman whose charm is hard to characterize but impossible to ignore.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
Each is nevertheless charmed by the other, forming a relationship that’s portrayed a bit like an illicit affair.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
The two met in 2005, and though Kidman was instantly charmed, Urban didn’t call her back for months.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charm
Noun
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Brides in South Asia are famously decked out in the precious metal – necklaces, earrings, nose rings, hair pieces and amulets – that can be gifted or inherited.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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Last year, archaeologists found 337 coins – many containing a Cleopatra image – along with oil lamps, an amulet, and vessels for storing food and cosmetics.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Gilbert appealed Wilson’s ruling; however, in December 2024, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel turned down Gilbert’s appeal, per Courthouse News Service.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Buccaneers, which mixes soapy costume drama with Taylor Swift songs, has been well reviewed by critics (72% Rotten Tomatoes average) and has developed a devoted following but has not broken out the way some of Apple TV+’s broad-appeal hits have.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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Then came a barrage of three hurricanes — Gabrielle, Humberto and Imelda — forming in a two-week-stretch to end September, breaking an unusual quiet spell.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Beckham, Joey Barton (Marseille) and Joe Cole (Lille) all had a season in France’s Ligue 1 in the 2010s, with the former ending his playing career at Paris Saint-Germain, after a six-season spell at LA Galaxy in MLS which was interspersed with two loans to Italy’s Milan.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the people defacing Friend’s advertisements are expressing a much larger, inchoate rage at the broader AI industry, not just these plastic pendants that practically nobody owns.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
6 Oct. 2025
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Bronze finds include clasps, pins, bracelets, pendants and even a horse figurine.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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And this character fascinated me, this person in an environment that has so much to offer but who’s so fragile inside.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Oct. 2025
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Levitation has fascinated both entertainers and scientists for centuries.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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However, Mimas also possesses an enormous impact crater (named Herschel), which itself is approximately one-third of the diameter of the entire moon itself.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Oct. 2025
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However, scientists have already confirmed that neutrinos do possess mass and thus defied the model’s predictions, though their exact mass remains unknown, with only upper limits established so far.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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Kane is the goalscorer and all-round talisman, Olise the drifting, carrying playmaker and Gnabry the dynamic generalist.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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To explain these distortions, experts speculate that the figures served as fertility talismans—designed to maximize those parts of the body that evolution has encoded us to see as signs of optimal child-bearers.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Forced by competition and driven by profit Despite the warnings, the attractiveness of higher returns remains powerful, particularly for insurers and pension managers facing long-term liabilities.—
Ganesh Rao,Karen Tso,
CNBC,
20 Sep. 2025
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Nevertheless, regardless of the potential attractiveness, investing in an individual stock entails significant risk.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Charm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charm. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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