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Recent Examples of demigod
In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Disney+ series adapted from Rick Riordan's bestselling book series, Walker Scobell plays the titular character, a demigod navigating the dangerous world of gods and monsters.
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Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
My colleague Bryan Alexander talked with 16-year-old Walker Scobell, who plays the title demigod (and son of Poseidon) and grew up a lot between the two seasons.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
The Moana trailer offers the first look at the denizens of Motunui, Johnson’s shape-shifting demigod Maui and the intimidating tribe of Kakamora.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
The Knight learns that Hallownest was originally founded by a great Wyrm, who abandoned his almighty shell to take a smaller form, that of a demigod known as the Pale King.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
My colleague Bryan Alexander talked with 16-year-old Walker Scobell, who plays the title demigod (and son of Poseidon) and grew up a lot between the two seasons.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
The Moana trailer offers the first look at the denizens of Motunui, Johnson’s shape-shifting demigod Maui and the intimidating tribe of Kakamora.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
The Knight learns that Hallownest was originally founded by a great Wyrm, who abandoned his almighty shell to take a smaller form, that of a demigod known as the Pale King.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demigod
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Kitana joins our heroes, secretly undermining her adoptive demon father Shao Kahn.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 May 2026
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Shirokawa, meanwhile, was a demon on defense, recording four assists on routine-to-difficult grounders and an acrobatic layout for a diving catch of a line drive.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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Steph Curry is absolutely an immortal.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole is lightly serialized, but following the ongoing story is not really the point; in a meta effort to convey how time is meaningless to the immortal, Stamatopoulos requested that the first season be aired in a random order.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Guests brought to life looks that referenced papal garments and displayed biblical artifacts like crosses, angel wings and halos.—
Luis Giraldo,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
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Author Daniel Kraus won in the fiction category for his book Angel Down, a story of World War I soldiers who find a fallen angel amongst the dead in No Man's Land - a tale Kraus relates entirely within one sentence.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
4 May 2026
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Jacobs-Jenkins cannot help noting that among that generation of Bible-quoting civil rights worthies are enough sins of the father to burden a host of sons.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
18 Mar. 2025
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Martin Luther King, Senator J. William Fulbright, and California Gov. Pat Brown all said so and who would know better than these worthies?—
Walter E Block,
Orange County Register,
13 Feb. 2025
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For the cover of the May 11 & 18, 2026, special issue, themed around America’s 250th birthday, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays George Washington, the country’s first President, caught in the spirit of the moment.—
Françoise Mouly,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Mayor Mamdani was elected with that spirit at the center of his agenda.—
Jonathan Timm,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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Emery’s eminence in Europe has been predicated on managing two-legged contests, knowing that the pace and rhythm is different.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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The image doesn’t mean the basketball gods have already penciled Dybantsa into Brooklyn’s future.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 May 2026
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For years, visitors to Edouard Duval-Carrié’s Little Haiti studio would find among his glittery and translucent historical figures and Vodou gods a story the artist could not shrug.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 May 2026
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The James Marshall monument was built at the urging of Native Sons of the Golden West, a fraternal organization devoted to preserving California’s settler past; members had to be white men born in the state.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Rather than being surrounded by six lanes of asphalt and rushing traffic, people would easy have access to rest comfortably around the monument.—
Lucius Riccio,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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“Demigod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demigod. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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