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
  • Also on deck for Lionsgate are Good Fortune starring Keanu Reeves as a meddlesome angel along with Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansar and Hunger Games helmer Francis Lawrence’s Stephen King adaptation, The Long Walk.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 17 June 2025
  • Smart angels outside Silicon Valley would do better to avoid such instruments.
    Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Following the awards ceremony, attendees can raise a glass with award winners and other jewelry genies during a cocktail event.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • The area’s newest boutique is like stepping into a genie’s bottle — if the genie had impeccable taste and a deep love for legacy designers, funky jewelry, and original art.
    Emiene Wright, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • This is a pen that is both weighty and lighthearted – fitting for the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, whose life of bonhomie and good cheer was disrupted by adventure and dragons and ring wraiths and war.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • The First Shadow was an effect as magical as the telekinetic wraiths emanating above the actors’ bodies.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Poltergeists, jinn, and the Ghost of Christmas Past all count as metaphysical entities.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • At least until quarter to 2, when Lindsay Lohan whorls through the door like a raspy chaos phantom.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • But does Chuck let this phantom haunt him into adulthood?
    Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The Santal, in South Asia, believed that witches (always female) copulated with spirit familiars and devoured the organs of children.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
  • But before Guillermo leaves for good, Nandor offers him a seat in his coffin, which unexpectedly is revealed to be the secret entrance to the underground crime-fighting lair much to the former familiar's delight and surprise.
    Stacy Lambe, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The supernatural thriller sees a woman return from death as a vindictive spirit to torment her adulterous husband.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 June 2025
  • My ever-mutable container, my compact symmetrical spirit vehicle, nothing wasted, nothing lacking, like a dressmaker’s dummy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Analysts note Mamdani’s promises to raise corporate taxes and income taxes on millionaires and freeze rents raise the specter of a leftward shift for America’s biggest city.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The decision to close the waterway now rests with the country's national security council, and its possibility has raised the specter of higher energy prices and aggravated geopolitical tensions, with Washington calling upon Beijing to prevent the strait's closure.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 June 2025

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“Daimon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daimon. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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