Jonah

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Noun
  • Some monks who were once forced off the island put a curse on it and everyone who ever took anything away from it.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • When her curse begins to affect her physically, Amada travels to the Abyss to seek a cure from the Grand Warlock.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Both conditions are caused by viruses closely associated with squirrels, although squirrel pox is more common among red squirrels typically in the United Kingdom.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The problem is that Tipping — using lots of quick cuts, booming music cues, flashing X-rays of injuries and occult-style voodoo horror tropes — fails to run up any numbers on the scoreboard.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Thanks to such voodoo carbon accounting, sellers of forest carbon offsets elsewhere are having to refund buyers due to unmet growth projections.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Jonah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jonah. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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