genie

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Recent Examples of genie More than six decades after humanity first harnessed the destructive power of nuclear reactions, the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons was charting a path for the world to put the genie back in the bottle. Nina Tannenwald, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018 Maintained in this state of wild vexation by volleys of planetary radiation— what if a genie replaced your phone with the club of somebody’s tibia bone? James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024 But the genie is out of the bottle on the game-changing benefits of AI. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024 The image of the king leaping into the void, and sacrificing himself to buy the kingdom more time and put the genie back in the bottle, that was an image that came in the very first writer’s room five years ago in Santa Monica. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for genie 
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Noun
  • In the opening scene of Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) sobs in bed before hurrying to the window to look upon the shadow of the demon entrancing her, Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgard).
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, the impish demon still sports a black-and-white suit, hoping to cause mischief in the world of the living and reconnect with his decades-long crush, Lydia.
    Emma Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That's why getting a friend to join you to shoot demons and vampires is a good idea.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Witches and vampires are two sides of the same coin in a way.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Spooktacular Hot Air Balloon Festival More than 20 frightfully fun hot air balloons will serve as trick-or-treat stations for little ghouls and goblins.
    Jessica Boehm, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
  • With her husband’s cooperation, a coven of Devil-worshipping ghouls occupy an Upper West Side apartment building and conspire to have a young woman Rosemary (Mia Farrow) raped and impregnated by Satan himself.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Kelly Clarkson isn’t visiting any ghosts of Christmas past this holiday season.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Why there's a ghost camping in her backyard who sang when the moon was half full.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Here, musical legends feel like flesh-and-blood figures, especially as Dylan navigates Seeger as the old-guard angel on one shoulder and Bob’s pen pal Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) as the rebel devil on the other.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The emojis showed a smiling devil, an oni mask, and the Irish flag.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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

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