jinni

variants or jinn also djinni or djinn

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Recent Examples of jinni The jinni has kept the woman locked in a glass chest, deep in the sea, but that hasn’t stopped her from sleeping with ninety-eight other men. Yasmine Al-Sayyad, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 Traditionally, jinn aren't seen as good or evil, and that moral ambiguity carries over to the series. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 June 2019 Next to me was Said Suleiman Mohammed, herbalist and jinni hunter. Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016 Although they are believed to exist in an endless variety of manifestations, negative and positive, jinn are most commonly thought to invade the homes and bodies of humans to cause distress. Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016
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Noun
  • Our goal has been to become the 'genie' for retailers today by anticipating tomorrow’s trends.
    Casper Ravn-Sørensen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There is no way to put the genie back in the bottle.
    Hod Fleishman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Divine intervention comes in the form of Dudley (Cary Grant), an angel who helps transform the community for the better — though things take a turn when Dudley falls in love with the titular bishop's wife (Loretta Young).
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Medieval stories about the sacred or supernatural—demons, angels, saints, relics and visions—were set in a society where the borders between natural and supernatural were thought to have been thin or nonexistent.
    Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Many slide hopelessly back into lives as nearly invisible wraiths, measured in the intervals between fixes — and arrests.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Discovery, two of the bigger owners of these cable-network wraiths, haven’t had much to show for keeping them up and running.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024

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