evil eye

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Noun
  • In 1952, physician and bacteriologist Paul-Félix Armand-Delille injected two wild European rabbits with myxomatosis virus, a type of pox disease.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • There’s also going to be more pox on the PR houses as no one will want to see themselves so allegedly attacked or so allegedly exposed again.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The inside is decked out with green and purple beads, voodoo masks and gold fleurs-de-lis.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The victims, many of them elderly, were accused of using voodoo to harm the gang leader’s son.
    Azhar Fateh, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The verdict: Its flavor was nothing short of despicably vile, which made Orly’s nail-biting polish both a gift and a curse along my journey to end my bad habit.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The long-standing curse of the new-music concert is a tendency toward miscellany.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Filmed in the New Forest, the largest remaining unenclosed common land in England, where the entanglement of non-human and human activity hides a joyous spell.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Instead of alphabetizing at a decent clip, Josh sniffs the books and ponders and ponders and then sits a spell to read.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
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