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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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as in wizards
a very smart person
the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius
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as in talents
a special and usually inborn ability
had a genius for remembering long strings of numbers had a genius for saying the wrong thing, no matter what the social situation
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as in aptitudes
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
a genius for gambling over his head
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as in natures
the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others
putting the needs of the individual before those of society is alien to the genius of the Japanese people
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as in manifestations
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
the giant tortoise would seem to be the very genius of the unfathomable ancientness that one associates with the Galápagos Islands
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Recent Examples of genies
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
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Drama of the nerds and the geniuses.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Special shout-out to the writers’ room for giving us a high-tension cold open and then segueing immediately post-credits to the Titan equivalent of a family road trip where Mom and Dad are pedantic geniuses arguing over what route to take to the beach.
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Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
This has been, in no small part, because Russia’s writers have often played an antagonistic role in the efforts of Russia’s rulers to shape a particular image of the country, including Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy—arguably Russia’s two most iconic literary geniuses.
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Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
But there was also a team beyond that consisting of creative geniuses like chess grandmasters, codebreakers and human psychologists.
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Alexander Foster,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Also, the brilliance of Tolstoy and Chekhov and Dostoevsky, these geniuses that have gone down in history.
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David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Like nuclear-fission research, machine learning was a small scientific field with epochal implications which was dominated by a cadre of eccentric geniuses.
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Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
And when the battleground is AI and art, geniuses often seem like The Good Guys.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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.
—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
You have been fired or laid off, and your replacement immediately takes the company to unprecedented heights while receiving the universal praise reserved for the geniuses of your craft.
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Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Drama of the nerds and the geniuses.
—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Special shout-out to the writers’ room for giving us a high-tension cold open and then segueing immediately post-credits to the Titan equivalent of a family road trip where Mom and Dad are pedantic geniuses arguing over what route to take to the beach.
—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
This has been, in no small part, because Russia’s writers have often played an antagonistic role in the efforts of Russia’s rulers to shape a particular image of the country, including Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy—arguably Russia’s two most iconic literary geniuses.
—
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
But there was also a team beyond that consisting of creative geniuses like chess grandmasters, codebreakers and human psychologists.
—
Alexander Foster,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Also, the brilliance of Tolstoy and Chekhov and Dostoevsky, these geniuses that have gone down in history.
—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Like nuclear-fission research, machine learning was a small scientific field with epochal implications which was dominated by a cadre of eccentric geniuses.
—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
And when the battleground is AI and art, geniuses often seem like The Good Guys.
—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genies
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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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