daimon

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Recent Examples of daimon Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word daimon, meaning a deity (remember that the Greek gods were notoriously jealous and greedy), but demotic, from the Greek word demos, meaning the people — the same root as democratic. Michael Barone, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024
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Noun
  • Outside of his work with OnlyFans, Radvinsky was an angel investor and a philanthropist, the company shared.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In addition to his work at OnlyFans, Radvinsky was an angel investor in a number of companies.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Still, the genie is already out of the bottle.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Ever since, the United States has tried unsuccessfully to put that Iranian nuclear genie back into the bottle.
    Carl Leubsdorf, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Pilots can see bad weather lurking in the distance hours before takeoff, glowing like a wraith on their digital maps.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The earliest depictions of slavery were already crawling with the terrible proceedings the Gothic tends to depict, from bloody whippings to family curses to the wrathful wraiths of the slain enslaved.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Cats make wonderful friends and, for the witchy folks among us, maybe even familiars.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The cast also includes franchise familiars Courteney Cox, Scott Foley, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, there was also John Ashbery, a presiding spirit in his body of work.
    Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For travelers with an adventurous spirit, Costa Rica’s South Pacific is a dream come true.
    Meghan Palmer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.
    Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The Stygiomedusa gigantea, commonly known as the giant phantom jelly, was filmed at 250 meters below the surface.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Gulf’s involvement raises the specter of the conflict expanding amid a push to reopen the strait.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The reading prompted fresh warnings that the region is facing the specter of looming stagflation — a toxic combination of high inflation and unemployment, and stalling growth.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Daimon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daimon. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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