covens

plural of coven

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of covens By then the witchy girl was everywhere, forming outcast covens in The Craft, fighting supernatural baddies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, all grown up and empowered to destroy abusive boyfriends in Practical Magic. Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for covens
Noun
  • Specifically, Shellenberger testified that sources had informed him that intelligence communities are in possession of numerous high-resolution photos and videos of the craft unlike any of the grainy imagery that has so far been declassified.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The series builds on The Star's efforts to improve coverage of local communities.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the Dallas Street property, small cliques of armed men, mostly Venezuelans and Mexicans, fought an ongoing turf war.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And there's hierarchy and cliques and clubs and all these different things.
    H. Alan Scott Jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points.
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While recent reports are textbook exposés of the realities of modern warfare, the recruitment networks’ international facade makes protecting foreign fighters all the more difficult.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The firm includes attorneys who have been interviewed on news networks, spoken at conventions, and even been elected to boards of directors or executive roles at prestigious legal organizations.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ellen and Brian may have just declared their love and commitment to each other in a handfast ceremony, but their burgeoning relationship is about to upend both of their clans’ lives.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Colum calmly declares that the union will mend the damage between the clans.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 17-year-old is now a figurehead in young adult literary circles through their book club, Read with Raegan, and partnerships with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Maduro is isolated, both within his circles and internationally.
    Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump also announced a similar designation for Haitian gangs.
    Azadeh Shahshahani, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Since that time, such attacks have proliferated, with ransomware gangs going after both individual practices and software vendors within the dental ecosystem.
    Tarun Eldho Alias, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That makes the $65 fee and all those frozen chicken nuggets and packs of ramen a pretty smart deal.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The exception to 'nobody in the AAA space is still working on RTS projects' might be Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios; Age of Empires — one of the undisputed greats of the genre — is still alive and regularly getting new entries, expansions, and smaller content packs.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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

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