genie

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Recent Examples of genie But the genie of populism is now out of the bottle and there is no going back. Jeff Kingston, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 The social media post included a photo of Eden sitting and striking her signature genie pose from her popular NBC sitcom. Nicholas Rice, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025 In a photo shared on Instagram, Eden struck her signature genie pose, delighting her nearly 130,000 followers. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025 Do fixers like Riz’s Ash actually exist for whistleblowers who get cold feet and want to put the genie back in the bottle? Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for genie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genie
Noun
  • But vanquishing his demons against the team for which his on-field struggles were most highly publicized would be a cathartic endeavor.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • However, he is born out of the same need to release music, to release the demons that are entering his brain.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The scene, which was not in Stephenie Meyer's 2008 book that the movie was adapted from, raised eyebrows for its brutal killings of vampires Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), as well as werewolves Seth (Booboo Stewart) and Leah Clearwater (Julia Jones).
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Joining Francis Ford Coppola's sumptuous Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is John Badham's Dracula, a decidedly romantic riff on the Transylvanian vampire's macabre tale.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Various cultures interpreted the ephemeral aberrations as fairies, ghosts or spirits.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
  • On the Blumarine spring 2026 runway in Milan on Friday, models tapped into their inner bohemian-fairy party girl personas with charcoal eyeliner smudged around their eyes, faded hues on their lips and tired waves in their hair.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Haunted Trail takes visitors outdoors through a path with dense fog and several haunting installations with zombies, a ghoul bus, a graveyard filled with ghosts, chainsaw maniacs and more.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This year’s Halloween costumes will feature everything from on-screen favorites to glittery ghouls.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Starks’ dream is to someday visit the Warren Occult Museum in Connecticut, which is closed to the public, but open to guests who book overnight stays at the home of late, famed ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Former teen heartthrob Devon Sawa briefly appeared at the end of Casper, playing the titular ghost's human form.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But this is no case study in the evils of devil-worshipping musicians.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Whether or not Alice lived happily ever after, Gertrude seems to have done so, at least once her devils were banished by inscrutability.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Poltergeists, jinn, and the Ghost of Christmas Past all count as metaphysical entities.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024

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