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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 brains
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 tendencies
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
a genius for gambling over his head
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as in personalities
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
Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
But what really sets the tech-bro geniuses apart, Randy figures, is microdosing Ketamine.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Anyone who believes the hacks’ eight-year estimate obviously doesn’t remember the Big Dig, and compared to Maura Healey’s box-checking blow-in crew, the Big Dig was managed by engineering geniuses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
Early in the season, the New York Mets looked like geniuses for signing Holmes, a two-time All-Star closer who hadn't started a game since 2018, to convert back into a starter.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
But the claim here isn’t that the Snakes are baseball dummies and the Padres are baseball geniuses.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Ringo was yellow submarines and octopus gardens, the mascot little brother, despite being the eldest Beatle, and the best at flittering above the feuds that afflicted the trio of geniuses around him.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
The WarioWare series is where Nintendo's game design geniuses really let their freak flags fly, with hundreds of absolutely bonkers microgames that last only seconds but challenge mind and reflexes.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
And, of course, biographical dramas about musical geniuses.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
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Between them, the gangly mods kept alive the fading tradition of feuding musical geniuses, a path that Paul McCartney and John Lennon had paved before them.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
But what really sets the tech-bro geniuses apart, Randy figures, is microdosing Ketamine.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Anyone who believes the hacks’ eight-year estimate obviously doesn’t remember the Big Dig, and compared to Maura Healey’s box-checking blow-in crew, the Big Dig was managed by engineering geniuses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
Early in the season, the New York Mets looked like geniuses for signing Holmes, a two-time All-Star closer who hadn't started a game since 2018, to convert back into a starter.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
But the claim here isn’t that the Snakes are baseball dummies and the Padres are baseball geniuses.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Ringo was yellow submarines and octopus gardens, the mascot little brother, despite being the eldest Beatle, and the best at flittering above the feuds that afflicted the trio of geniuses around him.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
The WarioWare series is where Nintendo's game design geniuses really let their freak flags fly, with hundreds of absolutely bonkers microgames that last only seconds but challenge mind and reflexes.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
And, of course, biographical dramas about musical geniuses.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Genies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genies. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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