As Stevie Wonder’s eponymous 1972 hit suggests, there’s something specifically ominous about a 13-month-old baby that puts it in league with the bad juju of falling ladders and broken looking glasses.
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Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Aug. 2026
Whatever juju, imagined or self-made, permeating throughout the Braves’ roster over the last few weeks was exorcised Wednesday.
An international team of roughly 60 researchers from 13 countries was excavating the site when the amulet was discovered.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 Aug. 2026
Filled with '90s nostalgia and amulets lifted straight from the original film, this collection spans necklaces, charms, rings, earrings and more, all imbued with the spirit of the Owens sisters' supernatural beauty and charisma.
Tupper’s Mick, at the mercy of his brittle fetishes, may be the most believable of this quartet.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2026
The screen is big, the image is sharp and bright, but Nolan’s visual compositions are dull—just pictures of actors acting, without style or poetry—and his fetish for size is just bombast and vanity.
Rose, the glitter-breathing dragon, resembles some of the more feminine-presenting mascots to appear in recent seasons, including Ellie (Liberty), Violet (Valkyries) and Skye (Sky).
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Annie Costabile,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2026
Her All-Star recap had plenty about the parties, cookies, mascots and her baseline seat.
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Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
25 Aug. 2026
Something of a memento mori, the necklace flips the script on the beetle's role as the harbinger of untimely death in the original film and becomes instead a protective talisman for its wearer.
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Kelsey Legg,
ABC News,
20 Aug. 2026
In a post-Bruno Guimaraes world, Newcastle are searching for a new talisman.
Getting that apparently trivial behavior working involved Home Assistant, MQTT, custom software, and more Claude, Codex and ChatGPT tokens than one should reasonably associate with boiling pasta.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Aug. 2026
Bitcoin rose first and lifted the broader market, but Solana has outperformed many other altcoins, a catchall term for tokens other than Bitcoin.
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