gris-gris

variants also grigri

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gris-gris
Noun
  • Sacrifice a Hot ’n’ Ready halfway between second and third base in Comerica Park in hopes of breaking up the bad juju there?
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
  • Seventies California was loaded with bad juju, from the Zodiac Killer to the Patty Hearst kidnapping to Jim Jones.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Neymar, the talisman for the whole enterprise, was tarred with the same brush.
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The film’s second half goes in for horror-movie shock effects when the ghost of a white nemesis haunts the Charles family — bringing back the terrors of slavery — and the talisman piano becomes an instrument of exorcism.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Archeologists first discovered the amulet in a cemetery just outside Frankfurt during a 2017 to 2018 dig.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The silver amulet was buried with a man in his 30s or 40s who died between 230 and 270 C.E., per the Greek Reporter’s Abdul Moeed.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Gris-gris.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gris-gris. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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