evil eye

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Noun
  • For instance, in the Florida Keys, the discovery that a bacterium found in human wastewater was behind white pox disease in elkhorn coral led to sewage system upgrades.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • An overarching concern for all involved is that more such communications will come out that will prove a pox on everyone’s houses, so to speak.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the fourth inning, the Bronx voodoo swirled in the night sky.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 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
  • 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
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“Evil eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil%20eye. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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