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also genii
as in demons
in stories
a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it
He rubbed the magic lamp to summon the genie.
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Recent Examples of genies
Like genies, the sky's the limit for making your holiday wishes come true.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 June 2026
One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition.
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Dan Sheehan,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies.
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Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 June 2026
One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition.
—
Dan Sheehan,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies.
—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genies
Noun
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Eerie in a way that feels more seductive than scary, the film isn’t bewitched by its demons so much as the process of transubstantiation by which a (self)tortured young woman can transform them into grace.
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Opportunity Babcock will arrive at camp in search of forwards who can be demons on the forecheck.
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In their respective grief, mommy issues, daughter issues, and, in the case of Armand and Daniel, daddy issues, our vampires are giving each other a run for their money over who is the most beautiful, most unwell.
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Taylor-Johnson starred as Friedrich Harding, a skeptic set in his belief that vampires don’t exist.
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Night of the Living Dead centers all the action at a farmhouse, where seven people attempt to ward off the ghouls — without any prior knowledge of how to do so.
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Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.
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Lawn Ornaments Too many lawn ornaments, such as gnomes, fairies, dolls, or flamingos, read as tacky to Emily Roose, the founder of Emily Roose Interiors.
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And creatures — fairies, a faun, the unforgettable Pale Man, with eyes in the palms of his hands — reveal a world of deeper and darker enchantment.
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Typically, ghosts show up in literature when something that has been repressed escapes and becomes everyone’s problem.
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This bed and breakfast is said to be haunted by more than a dozen spirits, including the ghosts of Civil War soldiers and a woman who once owned the early 1800s home.
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The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.
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But there are lots of potential devils in the details (otherwise there’d be little need for experimental reactors).
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But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter.
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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.
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Ferrell starred as Buddy in the 2003 Christmas classic, which focused on a human adopted by elves and raised as an elf in the North Pole until one day, as an adult, discovering his true identity.
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At the end of 2005-2006, a whole host of elves got arrested and were sent to prison.
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“Genies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genies. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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