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Recent Examples of jinn
But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
18 June 2026
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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Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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.
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Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
18 June 2026
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.
—
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jinn
Noun
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One Aladdin Two Lamps contains spectacular genies of its own, particularly when the author follows her intuition.
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He and Ka-young are reunited, both as genies.
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The loss threatened the summer learning session, but on Sunday, the community stepped up at an impromptu fundraiser that raised spirits and funds.
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As for cosmic weather this week, the planets align on June 28, igniting our adventurous spirits and libidos, eager to live life in the moment and sojourn onward!
Noun
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So a crew of angels and one unruly human are on a mission to rescue every Black person and bring them to heaven.
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And, if men are deaf, the angels hear.
Noun
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Cats make wonderful friends and, for the witchy folks among us, maybe even familiars.
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The cast also includes franchise familiars Courteney Cox, Scott Foley, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown.
Noun
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The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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The earliest depictions of slavery were already crawling with the terrible proceedings the Gothic tends to depict, from bloody whippings to family curses to the wrathful wraiths of the slain enslaved.
Noun
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However long and tangled her rap sheet, Sugar sees her illuminatory potential through the grime and shadows of an unforgiving film-noir cityscape.
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The 2027 total solar eclipse is part of a family of moon shadows called Saros 136, which produces very long-duration totalities.
Noun
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Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.
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Just in time for Halloween, the sonic phantoms that have long plagued the ladies of The View have seemingly possessed inanimate objects over on the Live With Kelly and Mark set.
Noun
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See-through specters haunt the backstage area of the Muppet theater, a Muppet News report warns of man-eating furniture, and Kermit turns the tables on Price during a long talk about acting by sprouting fangs and biting the horror icon’s neck.
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African diasporic people’s contentious history with these formations of motherhood create specters of separation as reproductive injustice.
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“Jinn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jinn. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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