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Recent Examples of jinx
Noun
The jinx broke when the Jordan basketball teams won a double victory during last Friday’s game with Chaska.—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 Unless, of course, the writer’s jinx overcomes the tie pin and the palm trees.—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
Not to jinx myself, but the things that people expect a quick reply to are rarely urgent.—Kelly Washington, refinery29.com, 2 Jan. 2024 Don’t want to jinx things but our budgets are a tiny bit up for fall 2025.—Denni Hu, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for jinx
How naive of me to expect that those in the public eye would at least pretend to possess tact, diplomacy, magnanimity and graciousness rather than bark and growl like an angry pit bull on a thick clanking chain.
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Louis Balsamo,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2025
James Gabbert/Getty Images The Context Texas law allows people with a license to conceal carry a gun and to possess that gun on college campuses.
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Sophie Clark
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
That’s hardly unique for this team but rectifying it is imperative; Le Bris’ side were well organised last season but will need to upgrade their ability to withstand long spells of pressure this year.
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Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
In exploring some of the ways that LLMs work and what that brings to business, McKay talked about trust, using the example of early spell check tools evolving into autocorrect, and suggesting that businesses should build up to more extreme disruptions.
More on culture An Eagles fan brought a Patrick Mahomes voodoo doll to the Super Bowl.
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Emily Bazelon,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
Despite his clearly enjoying killing people for personal reasons, the movie’s Kraven seems to think of himself as a kind of antihero, which voodoo practitioner Calypso (Ariana DeBose) rightfully clocks as a red flag.
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